Egypt's Ministry of Higher Education has established three private universities across the country, with investments of 48.5 billion Egyptian pounds ($2.9 billion), minister Khalid Abdel Ghaffar told Mubasher on Sunday.
Abdel Ghaffar made these (...)
The temperature is expected to drop starting Friday in Cairo with highs of 38 degrees Celsius and lows of 25, following three days of high temperatures exceeding 40 degrees at peak, the head of the Egyptian Meteorological Authority Ahmed Abdel-Aal (...)
استقبلت النجمة كريستين ريتر مولودها الأول اليوم الخميس، الذي يعتبر الابن الغير شرعي لصديقها آدام جراندسويل، وذلك في سرية تامة بعيدا عن أعين الصحافة.
ووفقا لصحيفة ديلي ميل البريطانية، فإن مجلة TMZ، أفادت في تقرير لها أن كريستين قامت بولادة طفلها (...)
Egypt's Interior Ministry named Abdel Rahman Khaled, a member of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Hasm militant group, as the perpetrator of the explosion that took place outside the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Cairo on Sunday, (...)
Egypt approved to allocate 15,000 feddans to set up a new city in Bani Mazar, located in Upper Egyptian governorate of Minya.
These remarks were made during a meeting f the Higher Council for Planning chaired by Egyptian Prime Minister Moustafa (...)
Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) António Guterres strongly denounced the ‘deadly terrorist' attack which took place in front of the National Cancer Institute in Cairo early on Monday morning and left at least 20 people killed.
According (...)
US President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior advisor, Jared Kushner, accompanied by a White House team including Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt and State Department official Brian Hook, began last week a Mideast tour to rally support from (...)
Egyptian authorities have been interrogating the country's most-wanted terrorist Hesham Ashmawi recently after he was extradited from Libya, where he was captured, in May.
The army officer-turned-terrorist Ashmwai confessed he was recruiting (...)
Lieutenant General Mohamed Farid, Chief of Staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces, inspected a number of security checkpoints and the permanent operations unit in North Sinai on Saturday.
Farif also visited the soldiers mandated with executing measures (...)
Egypt's armed forces Chief-of Staff Lieutenant General Mohamed Farid visited soldiers in North Sinai mandated with executing measures to besiege and eradicate militants, under the forces' counter-terrorism activities.
Farid inspected a number of (...)
Misr El Kheir empowered 2,500 female breadwinners either indebted or not across the governorates of Egypt, since its establishment in 2017, through setting up projects for them, according to Fundraising Sector Director, Misr El Kheir Foundation, (...)
The Minister of Environment, Yasmine Fouad, discussed on Wednesday with Yannick Glemarec the executive director of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), the mechanisms of funding a number of priority projects in Egypt and African countries.
The meeting (...)
A huge Roman Empire building that is believed to be the Roman Empire main senate was unearthed on Wednesday at the Pelusium archaeological site near North Sinai. The site was found by an Egyptian mission in cooperation of the Institute of Archeology (...)
Egypt has issued a presidential decree to build a new city by northwest of Cairo, an official source in the country's Housing Ministry's arm NUCA said on Tuesday.
The new city will be at the Wadi El Natrun-New Alamein road, to be one of Egypt's (...)
American Federal agents arrested two Somalis Friday at Tucson International Airport, as they were travelling to Egypt to join the Islamic State's (IS) branch in North Sinai.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said Ahmed Mohamed and Abdi (...)
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has directed the government to keep up efforts necessary for completing the establishment of fourth-generation cities as part of a national urban development strategic plan.
This came during the president's (...)
Building such a facility on the Red Sea shore for liquid natural gas (LNG) exports would cost $10-15 billion.
Egypt and Israel are considering construction of a liquefaction facility on the shores of the Red Sea in Sinai through which natural gas (...)
About 32.5% of the Egyptians are living below the poverty line in 2017/18, compared to 27.8% in 2015, according to the expenditure and income research prepared by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS), Khairat Barakat, (...)
President Abdel-Fattah El Sisi has directed the government to keep up efforts necessary for completing the establishment of fourth-generation cities as part of a national urban development strategic plan.
This came during the president's meeting on (...)
Egypt's Housing Ministry announced on Wednesday the implementation of four drinking water and sanitation stations in Upper Egyptian governorate of Minya, at a cost worth 1.818 million Egyptian pounds ($109,792).
The ministry explained that running (...)
A delegation from Egypt's civil aviation ministry inspected Sharm El-Sheikh International Airport, as the country continues its efforts to attract tourists via charter flights previously suspended by several European countries since the crash of a (...)
*This article was first published on 21 October, 2012. Ahram Online has republished it to celebrate his life; Bishara died on 23 July, 2019.
He has numerous medals to testify to his heroism during Egypt's War of Attrition and October War; he has (...)
Under the programme of ‘Excess Defence Articles' (EDA) affiliated to United States Defence Ministry which works to get rid of surplus military equipment and dedicates it to ‘friendly countries and allies,' Egypt received 101 Mine-Resistant Ambush (...)
Egypt's state-run statics agency CAPMAS' population clock on Sunday showed the country's population reaching 99 million.
Cairo Governorate recorded the highest number of people reaching 9.8 million followed by Giza with a population of 8.9 million (...)
The Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics's population clock showed Egypt's population reaching 99 million on Sunday.
Cairo Governorate recorded the highest number of people reaching 9.8 million followed by Giza with a population of (...)
