Protest at Egypt presidential palace to press for action on missing persons.

The We Will Find Them movement makes an emotional appeal to the president and calls for a protest at the presidential...

Army and police dispersed six protests on Wednesday across four provinces that blocked roads, arresting 19 for instigating highway and railroad blockages.

In Minya, security arrested six people...

Minister of Telecommunications and Information Technology Hany Mahmoud said his ministry has prepared a freedom of information bill and plans to open it to public debate after the holy Muslim feast...

Total number of unemployed Egyptians now stands at some 3.4 mn, more than quarter of whom have recently lost jobs, according to official statistics agency CAPMAS.

The national unemployment rate...

Egypt Court sentences 14 Islamists to death over Sinai 2011 attacks.

Islamist militants accused of killing police and military officers in attacks on police station and bank in Sinai in 2011...

Morsi's counterpunch: A reading of Egypt latest Constitutional Declaration.

President Mohamed Morsi has stunned Egypt by restructuring the military council and releasing a new constitutional...

A recent Gallop Poll in the region shows surprising support in Egypt for equal rights for women. The results for Egypt are higher than for all other countries including Tunisia.

In countries polled...

There’s no avoiding that it’s hot in Egypt. It’s hot in summer, it’s hot in winter, and I’d add more seasons but that’s all we have: hot and slightly less hot. Ramadan really hammers this fact home...

Power on for the president, off when he leaves: Egyptian village children protest .

A group of Upper Egypt children hold an impromptu protest march carrying signs saying that they had lights while...

Politicians have attributed the lawlessness and chaos that swept the country in the recent period to security authorities’ unwillingness to work hard to take control of the street. They demanded that...

Ramadan jingle is 6,000 years old
Nabila Magdy
Fri, 20/07/2012 - 11:20

“Wahawy ya wahawy/Eyaha/We kaman wahawy/Eyaha” — these are the introductory lyrics of our most popular Ramadan jingle. My...

Morsy's spokesperson: We're developing long-term solutions for trash problem.

Presidential spokesperson Yasser Ali said Saturday that the clean-up campaign that President Mohamed Morsy has called...

Despite repeated promises by officials to implement a national minimum wage since the 2011 uprising, many workers are still waiting for a living wage and are suspicious of government promises....

Family say citizen tortured to death at Old Cairo police station.

Ahmed Abdel Naby, a prisoner who died at the Old Cairo police station on Tuesday, was tortured to death, a report by medical...

A mesaharati, traditionally a man, rouses people during the holy month of Ramadan by calling their names as he strolls through the streets, banging his drum.

He does this a couple of hours before...

The fact on the ground says that some people have been exploiting the post-January 25 Revolution chaos to make serious violations. One of these violations involves constructing large buildings...

Power cuts continued across Egypt despite promises by officials from the electricity and energy ministries that the crisis will gradually ease.

Activists on Facebook called on the ministries to...

Recent deadly accidents are caused by state negligence; liberal party urges for new govt.

In light of many recent grave accidents, the liberal Free Egyptians Party says a salvation government is...

Members of the people's committee of Saft el Laban occupy the Giza governorate building vowing to stay in the building and its grounds until their town has water.

Saft el Laban - located in Giza...

Erasing history: Old Cairo residents warn of land theft, disappearing monuments.

In the run-down neighbourhood of Ezbet Khayrallah in southern Cairo, a new incident of land theft appears to be...