France's rail transport giant Alstom and the Egyptian National Railways (ENR) signed a framework agreement to modernize the Tanta – Zifta – Zagazig mainline, covering approximately 65 km comprising nine main stations. The deal was signed on Monday (...)
The supreme committee of the Theatre Without Fund Festival (TWFF) announced that its 11th edition (scheduled to take place 22-26 August) will bear the name of Egyptian artist Ashraf Zaki. The festival will take place across numerous stages in (...)
Some years ago, Banque Misr, one of Egypt's three public-sector banks, ran a campaign announcing that “Talaat Harb is coming back.”
The campaign aimed at evoking the spirit of the founding father of the bank, Talaat Harb, in order to encourage the (...)
Minister of irrigation, Hossam Moghazy will inspect Saturday a number of projects in west Delta region, Al Bawaba News reported.
Moghazy will witness the implementation of the first experiment of river transport from the city of Damietta to the town (...)
The Egyptian Front and Tayyar Al-Estiqlal hold a number of public conferences on Monday, in a number of provinces that carried out the second phase of elections, so as to raise public awareness of the need to participate in the light of the strong (...)
The new appointed Prime Minister Sharif Ismail was authorized to form Egypt's new Cabinet after the resignation of the current caretaker government headed by Ibrahim Mahlab on Saturday.
Ismail's journey with the government started with the first (...)
Explosions occurred Sunday across Egypt, mainly in Al Qalyubia, Alexandria and Cairo, leaving one dead and five injured, according to Ministry of Health.
Undersecretary of the ministry of Health in Alexandria, Magdy Hegazy told Al Bawaba News that (...)
Egypt's Ministry of Transportation has completed the upgrading of 11 railway stations, with an investment cost worth EGP 500 million, according Minister Ibrahim El-Demeiry.
This comes within the framework of the ministry's strategy to upgrade the (...)
The poetry of Abdel-Rahman El-Abnoudi has been delivered by lead singers ever since the end of the 1950s. It contributed to recording Egypt's national battles and shaping its collective consciousness
Although poetry is the gospel of the Arabs, its (...)
Obituary:
(1926-2011): 'The right to life'
By Faiza Rady
Worker, trade unionist and writer passed away peacefully in the northern Delta town of Meet Ghamr on 31 May.
"It is with sadness and grief that we mourn the death of a remarkable workers' (...)
The NDP was always going to emerge as the largest party in the People's Assembly. What no one predicted was how large, reports Gamal Essam El-Din
As expected the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) emerged triumphant from the two rounds of (...)
CAIRO: Land is sacred territory in Egypt, but for the Arab Cotton Ginning Company (AGC), it wasn't that important, as the textile company sold over 11,000 square meters of its property for some $15.5 million, the company said in a statement to the (...)
Violence in Sayyeda: A 21-year-old worker was fatally stabbed twice, in the neck and chest, by the man who'd just stolen his mobile. It was in el-Sayyeda Zeinab that the 41-year-old thief, a carpenter called Hossam Hassan, knifed his victim, Ahmed (...)
The right to strike is clearly stipulated in Egypt's labor law, but can Egyptian workers really exercise this right? Two recent incidents indicate this right is exercisable in theory or law (de jure) but not in practice (de facto): a bus workers' (...)
CAIRO: Arab Cotton Ginning Company (ACGC), currently identified as an integrated textiles group, detailed its restructuring plans on Sunday, which will see it transform into a holding company specialized in textiles.
The decision, voiced by CEO, (...)
CAIRO: In a nutshell, it seems like there isn't enough of it. It has reached the extent that former UN Secretary General Boutros Ghali has been warning against water wars for years (and don't think water balloon fights, but real military conflicts (...)
Small and practical it may be, but the tuk-tuk remains illegal: Nahed Nassr takes a controversial ride
It was a cold and rainy night
Everyone running home
In the street, with heavy bags
I call for a fast and lovely tuk-tuk
But the tuk-tuk leaves me (...)
Man digs up apartment to make off with artifacts; revenge by fire
Cairo: A young man jumped into the Nile and died. Oddly enough, the death was neither a suicide nor a murder. The man simply wanted to prove to his beloved that he was ready to do (...)
Al-Ahram: A Diwan of contemporary life (612)
Village choice
Contention over the election versus the appointment of village mayors, writes Professor Yunan Labib Rizk, is a long one that goes back to the time of Khedive Ismail
Muhammad Ali, the (...)
In a week commemorating the anniversary of the 23 July Revolution Al-Ahram Weekly speaks with Attia El-Serafi, a trade unionist whose activism began in the 1940s.
The Free Officers, argues El-Serafi, capitalised on an already existing situation and (...)
Plumber by profession, mechanic by vocation and, on paper, once upon a time in Iraq a millionaire
Profile by Nur Elmessiri
"Labour Day? It was the muwazafeen [government employees] who used to celebrate it because of the raise they got on 1/5. But (...)