Ramadan Highlights
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Sat 18, 9.30pm: The Arab Singing Youth concert features a group of the golden voices, conducted by maestro Medhat Abdel-Samiaa.
Thurs 23, 9.30pm: Classical music by Al-Nour wa (...)
The Industrial Development Bank (IDB) purchased a land plot of 5,350 sqm in the New Administrative Capital to establish the bank's new headquarters, Maged Fahmy, chairperson of the IDB, said.
The bank has contracted with the Armed Forces Engineering (...)
Security forces killed on Tuesday two “extremely dangerous” criminal suspects in a shootout in Qena in Upper Egypt, Egypt's Interior Ministry said on Tuesday.
Police received information that a suspect accused of murder and drug-related charges was (...)
Mahmoud Dessouki is a journalist with a peculiar habit. If he chances upon a pile of papers, or even a scrap, he can't rest until he figures out the minutest details of the story behind them.
Because of the persistence of this habit in this Upper (...)
In the first day of voting in the referendum on the constitutional amendments, millions of Egyptian citizens across the nation headed to polling stations on Saturday, to approve or reject the amendments which may allow President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi (...)
This weekend, over 1000 young people participated in a 2 KM run along the Luxor corniche, attended capacity building workshops and participated in an interactive theatre performance, as they rallied around population issues in Egypt.
This came as (...)
Tamweely Microfinance has launched its new expansion strategy for 2019 which aims to increase the number of the company's branches and its portfolio size, introduce new financial products, and sign cooperation agreements with banks and financial (...)
The eighth Luxor African Film Festival (LAFF, 15-21 March) closed last week, having screened over 80 films in five competitions – the long narrative, long documentary, short, student project and freedom film programmes – and three out-of-competition (...)
The Minister of Health, Hala Zayed, announced on Monday that the ministry has examined 5 million school students since mid-February.
The first phase of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi's initiative for detecting anaemia, obesity, and stunting was (...)
Um Ismail, an uneducated widowed mother of three living in an impoverished village in Sohag in Upper Egypt, often has a hard time coping with looking after her elderly bed-ridden mother in her hometown and keeping her job in Cairo to provide food (...)
Despite government efforts to manage the problem of accumulating solid waste, none have yet resulted in pinpointing a sustainable solution. The Ministry of Environment and other bodies have embarked on countless initiatives to get rid of waste, but (...)
Um Ismail, an uneducated widowed mother of three living in an impoverished village in Sohag in Upper Egypt, often has a hard time coping with looking after her elderly bed-ridden mother in her hometown and keeping her job in Cairo to provide food (...)
“You don't see a floating hospital every day,” commented Malak Morris, a 62-year-old porter, while holding his nine-year-old daughter Lamis in his arms.
Morris has been knocking on doors and going to all the relevant clinics and every hospital in (...)
Egypt's Health Minister Hala Zayed said on Monday the total number of those examined since the “100 million healthy lives” initiative was launched is estimated at 32.5 million citizens covering 27 governorates till now.
Zayed, in press statements on (...)
The Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Tarek El-Molla, asserted on Monday the state's tendency to make use of Egypt's rich reserves of mineral resources, in a way that attracts more investments into the Egyptian market, in accordance with (...)
The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency (MSMEDA) signed contracts worth EGP 14m on Monday with 14 NGOs to finance microenterprises in nine governorates, including Minya, Fayoum, Sohag, Qena, Luxor, Daqahleya, Qaliubiya, the Red (...)
“Youth for the Nile” is an initiative recently launched to clean up Egypt's lifeline and rid it of plastic waste.
The campaign was initiated by Minister of Environment Yasmine Fouad in collaboration with the Egyptian Sailing and Water Ski (...)
The education and health ministries have launched a joint campaign to combat obesity, anaemia and stunting among school students. In a press conference earlier this week Minister of Education Tarek Shawki and the Minister of Health and Population (...)
The director of rural development at the World Food Programme (WFP), Ithar Khalil, has said that a climate change programme will target 500 villages in Upper Egypt.
Agricultural projects that will be implemented as part of the programme will cost (...)
Standing on the banks of the Nile in Upper Egypt is the grand Temple of Dendera, a fine example of the temples of the Graeco-Roman period. It is built mainly of sandstone and has survived relatively unscathed because it was buried in sand until the (...)
Chairperson and Managing Director of the Suez Canal Bank, Hussein Refaey, dreams of ending non-performing loans (NPLs) in 2019.
He noted that the bank's new management has managed to settle EGP 1.5bn of debt in the past 18 months.
Refaey informed (...)
The Earth's climate is currently subject to various risks, but unfortunately too much of the public and too many in official circles in the Arab world still lack an awareness of the dangers threatening it.
Scientifically speaking, climate change has (...)
On New Year's Eve, President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi launched the Decent Life Initiative on his official social media accounts, whereby under his auspices ministries, community associations and non-governmental organisations alike are to focus on (...)
Philip Morris partnered with Injaz Misr, as the world's largest tobacco firm exerts more effort in supporting local communities in the countries it works in de-stereotyping the image of tobacco companies and the industry.
Injaz Misr, a non-profit (...)
The Earth's climate is currently subject to various risks, but unfortunately too much of the public and too many in official circles in the Arab world still lack an awareness of the dangers threatening it.
Scientifically speaking, climate change (...)
