Egypt has adopted a plan to expand the use of natural gas by road vehicles in a bid to reduce fuel imports, lower emissions to protect the environment, and make use of the country's own massive natural gas production.
President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi (...)
Along with sculptor Mahmoud Mokhtar and painters Mahmoud Said and Ragheb Ayad as well as several others, Mohamed Nagy (1888-1956) belongs to the first generation of modern Egyptian artists – the pioneers. His work drew on both ancient Egyptian (...)
Aqarmap, the online marketplace for real estate, will hold its fourth Online Expo on 24 July. The digital exhibition comes off the back of the company's previous online exhibitions, in which major real estate development companies have (...)
Egypt has developed 296 unsafe informal settlements with total cost of 61 billion Egyptian pounds within 6 years, the country's housing minister Assem El-Gazzar said.
Egypt has built about 1 million residential units at a combined value of 200 (...)
A number of 399 investors has reserved 193 industrial lands as part of the third phase of the industrial investment map with a reservation rate of 30 percent reported so far.
Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouli on Friday was briefed on the status of (...)
Relations between the US and China have crashed of late, turning from a trade fight and then a war of words over the origins of the Covid-19 to a more important investigation of individual companies and the global economy. Relations between the two (...)
Four Egyptian insurance companies are competing to win an insurance policy tender to cover assets and equipment of the state-run Port Said Container and Cargo Handling Co., according to sources.
The companies are the state-owned Misr Insurance, Arab (...)
Minister of Trade and Industry offers 204 industrial units to investors at the Plastic Industries Complex in Alexandria, Mergham 2, according to Nevine Gamea.
Gamea, who is also Executive Director of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (...)
East Port Said Development company is set to receive 1.5 million metre square from the Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone) in order to develop Suez Canal axis, General Manager of Commercial Affairs, Ahmed Al Mufti.
He told Amwal Al Ghad that his (...)
Construction works on the Mergham 2 Plastic Industries Complex in Alexandria have been completed, according to Minister of Trade and Industry Nevine Gamea.
Gamea, who is also Executive Director of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Development (...)
Egypt's state-owned Port Said Container and Cargo Handling Co. is negotiating with non-life insurance companies operating in the country to cover its assets, according to sources.
The one-year term insurance policy is with a total sum insured up to (...)
“Fluid, seamless, up-close-and-personal camera work in a moving portrait of Egypt's youth. Ayten Amin carefully builds a precious world where local tradition and universal hope are fused. Here, a young girl dreams, hopes to please and seduce, (...)
Egypt said on Friday 34 new hotels and resorts in seven governorates received the new hygiene safety certificate required to reopen in the wake of the coronavirus, bringing the total number of hotels open nationwide to 266.
Abdel Fatah El-Asy, (...)
The Industrial Development Bank (IDB) reported pre-tax profit of about EGP 391m at the end of December 2019, compared to about EGP 379m at the end of December 2018.
The IDB's 2019 profit showed an increase of EGP 12m compared to the previous year, (...)
Minister of Communication and Information Technology Amr Talaat has said his ministry is close to completing six technology parks in Minya, Menoufiya, Mansoura, Sohag, Qena, and Aswan.
He added that the technology parks will be opened after the end (...)
The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) will allocate €15m to Egypt's Ministry of Health to help fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19), according to Minister of International Cooperation Rania Al-Mashat.
The allocation was formalised through (...)
The number of hotels that are allowed to operate at a reduced capacity increased to 232 in 13 governorates, having adhered to safety regulations outlined by the ministry, tourism ministry said on Friday.
The hotels and resorts are located in South (...)
Egypt's tourism ministry said on Friday that the number of hotels which are allowed to operate at a reduced capacity has increased to 232 in 13 governorates, having adhered to safety regulations outlined by the ministry.
The hotels and resorts are (...)
The European Union, the European Investment Bank (EIB), and the Egyptian government have launched on Monday the second phase of the Community Development Programme with a total financing of 111 million Egyptian pounds ($6.8 million).
The progamme (...)
The Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF) announced on Tuesday that it has accepted the resignation of its Artistic Director Ahmed Shawky.
Shawky's resignation comes in the wake of a large-scale social media and press campaign that criticised his (...)
Many readers of Al-Ahram Weekly will remember that the origins of Al-Ahram go back to the arrival on Egypt's shores of two Lebanese brothers, Beshara and Selim Takla, towards the end of the 19th century and their foundation of a new newspaper of (...)
Since July 2014, the date President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi took office, the state has been in a hurry to complete an array of mega projects that include roads, bridges, tunnels, new cities and even a new canal.
In the housing sector alone Egypt has (...)
Egyptian film critic Ahmed Shawky has resigned from his role as artistic director of this year's Cairo International Film Festival, scheduled to take place in November, the festival's advisory board has announced.
Shawky's appointment was announced (...)
اعتمد الدكتور طارق رحمي، محافظ الغربية، اليوم الأربعاء، نتيجة الشهادة الإعدادية للعام الدراسي 2019/2020.
بلغ إجمالي المتقدمين للشهادة الإعدادية العامة 73700 طالب بنسبة نجاح 99.86 %، وذلك بحضور ناصر حسن وكيل وزارة التربية والتعليم بالغربية.
وأوضح (...)
Today, all of humanity is suffering the health and economic repercussions of the global Covid-19 pandemic. We are obsessed with infection, discombobulated about changing our routines, and anxious about staying at home indefinitely until someone (...)
