Egypt's political parties fully back President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi over ongoing negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Mohamed Tayseer Mattar, leader of the Alliance of Egyptian Parties, said during a press conference on (...)
In a strong signal of Moscow's intention to play a greater role in the Middle East, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in Cairo on Monday to meet with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi and Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri.
Lavrov's (...)
Egypt's current account deficit widened to $4.8 billion in October-December from $3.2 billion in the same period in 2019, according to central bank figures released on Monday.
Remittances from Egyptian workers abroad rose to $7.49 billion in (...)
Generally, shows begin at, 9:30pm, however each cinema has its show times during the month of Ramadan.
Americana Plaza
Sixth of October, Sheikh Zayed next to Ceramica Cleopatra behind Hyper one. Tel: 010 2002 0033
*Godzila Vs Kong
*Kung Fu Mulan (...)
Political myopia led the Norwegian Nobel Institute to grant its once highly coveted and prestigious Nobel Peace Prize to a war criminal in 2018. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was presented with the prize by the institute when he portrayed (...)
Osama Rabie, Chairperson of Egypt's Suez Canal Authority, has met with a Japanese delegation to exchange views on strengthening bilateral cooperation between the two sides.
The Japanese delegation included: Noke Masaki, Ambassador of Japan to Egypt; (...)
The National Bank of Egypt (NBE) and Banque Misr are leading a coalition of six banks to provide EGP 10bn in financing to the Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone).
The long-term joint financing contract was signed by: SCZone Chairperson Yehia Zaky; NBE (...)
Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone) signed on Sunday a long-term syndicated loan agreement worth 10 billion Egyptian pounds ($636.7 million) with a consortium of six banks operating in Egypt.
The consortium was led by the National Bank of Egypt (NBE) (...)
In the past few days, there have been noticeable changes at a number of banks operating in the Egyptian market as they work on increasing their capital to comply with the country's new banking law.
Banking Law No 194 of 2020 stipulates that the (...)
Egypt's Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research has announced that 10 faculties at universities across the country have held electronic tests for the first semester of the 2020-2021 academic year.
The universities at which the (...)
The World Stroke Organization (WSO) honoured eight stroke centres in Egypt for their efforts in providing high standard and effective medical care in the field of stroke management.
With 250,000 individuals suffering from stroke annually in Egypt, (...)
Egypt began vaccinating captains and workers at its Suez Canal Authority (SCA) on Tuesday and also unrolled the jab for workers in the tourism sector, Minister of Health Hala Zayed announced on Tuesday.
Zayed witnessed the beginning of the (...)
With Ramadan only a few days away, people are beginning the tradition of buying different kinds of nuts ahead of the holy month in order to use them in traditional dishes, whether savoury or desserts.
These include rice with nuts, or roz (...)
All films screened in commercial cinemas are changed on Wednesday. Generally, shows begin at 10:30am, 1:30pm, 3:30pm, 6:30pm, 9:30pm and sometimes midnight, especially on week-ends. Special film seasons and screenings are held in cultural centres (...)
Probably the most important of all memoirs of British colonial rule in Egypt is Modern Egypt by Evelyn Baring, Lord Cromer, who after 25 years as British consul-general in Cairo returned to the UK in 1907 to spend his retirement. According to the (...)
As the African Union-sponsored negotiations on Ethiopia's Renaissance Dam convened in Kinshasa, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed spoke of war on "eight fronts." Most of those fronts are internal. The most serious is in the Tigray region where (...)
My column is usually devoted to the state of things in the Arab world, inter-Arab relations, the Arabs' relations with the rest of the world, or else the world itself, with all its ups and downs. Rarely am I driven to write about Egypt except in the (...)
After a week of apparently endless disasters, and what seemed as though the curse of the pharaohs had finally set in, a euphoric stretch followed, a few days that could not have compensated Egyptians for their earlier endurance in any better way. (...)
Addressing the world last week after the freeing of the Ever Given giant container ship that was stranded in the Suez Canal, the most strategic and cost-effective international shipping route, President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi delivered a (...)
The saga of the six-day Suez Canal shutdown and the associated standstill of global shipping has ended, leaving 400 stranded ships at the northern and southern end of this key global waterway free to make their way through the canal.
However, as (...)
Though the huge Ever Given vessel was freed last week and is no longer blocking the Suez Canal it remains anchored in the Great Bitter Lake midway along the length of the canal waiting for its ordeal to reach an end.
The 400-metre-long vessel was (...)
The recent Suez Canal crisis uncovered a hidden facet of the economic interests of other countries, who raced to make gains at the expense of Egypt's predicament when the canal was blocked by the giant Japanese cargo ship the Ever Given for a (...)
The glamour of ancient Egyptian civilisation has never left the collective imagination of every nation, particularly in the West. Countless movies, TV shows, novels and even comics have depicted a vision of what ancient Egyptian civilisation may (...)
قالت صحيفة الجارديان إن انسداد قناة السويس من قبل سفينة الحاويات "إيفرجيفن" أدى إلى بذل جهود دولية جديدة لإيجاد بديل لأهم ممر بحري في العالم. وأضافت الصحيفة أن مسؤولي الأمم المتحدة يراجعون خطط بناء قناة جديدة على طول الحدود المصرية "الإسرائيلية"، (...)
قال مراقبون إن الشعب في العادة هو من سيسدد فاتورة خسائر قناة السويس التي تكبدتها مصر بواقع 15 مليون دولار يوميا لمدة أسبوع كامل خلال تعطل الملاحة بالمجرى بسبب جنوح حاملة الحاويات العملاقة "إيفر جيفن"، وأنها ستخصم من دعمه التمويني وزيادة في الضرائب (...)
