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In Cairo's Café Umm Kalthoum
A cafe in the heart of downtown Cairo takes Egyptians away from the hubbub of everyday life back to the heady days when the voice of legendary singer Umm Kalthoum lifted...
Zane't El-Settat: A haunted market
Zane't El-Settat, is an old market where a shopper can find almost anything: a market with memories of Egypt's notorious women serial killers
Ameera Fouad, Tuesday...
Egyptian cities and markets: What's behind a name?
Zamalek, Boulak, Saqqara, Khan al-Khalili are landmarks that date back centuries. Ahram Online looks at the stories behind the names of Egypt's...
Ahram Online looks at the toll Egypt's crumbling public health system has taken on the lives of patients and doctors, and talks to those who are trying to change things.
Tahrir Square was full after marches arrived from different Cairo neighborhoods Tuesday for a demonstration against President Mohamed Morsy’s 22 November constitutional declaration.
A handful of Egyptian state television channels – including Channel 1, Egyptian Satellite TV and some Nile TV channels – abruptly vanished from the airwaves on Sunday evening.
Live broadcast of Egypt touristic sites worldwide to promote industry
Egyptian officials plan to create a live, round-the-clock video broadcast of the country's main tourist areas in a project...
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Cool idea, because The media has summarised the whole country as the single square kilometre that is Tahrir Square... is soooooooooooooo sadly true!!!! :x
Almost all local newspapers highlight the massive stock market plunge on their front pages Monday. In the third largest single-day drop since January 2011, the country’s stock market lost LE29.3...
If I understand it correctly Pres Morsi is now even more powerful that Pres Mubarak he seems to have put himself above the law. He has promised to uphold the aims of the revolution but surely the way...
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Democracy at its best!!! But seriously the Jurisdition system here is a laugh if you have been involved in the system, it really is a train wreck, full of everyone and nobody not knowing what to do.
Egyptian protesters recall the remarkable heroism encountered during last year's four-day showdown with security forces on Cairo's now-iconic Mohamed Mahmoud Street.
No reported deaths at clashes which began on Monday during protest to commemorate last year's Mohamed Mahmoud Street clashes; independent reports puts numbers higher.
A message from the Egyptian children to the whole world
they taught us in our school
how to love our country
to take care of her throughout our life and protect its land
we understood what does Our...
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I find the images and some of the lyrics very disturbing. :(
'I will be one of her soldiers to protect her land
I have no hesitate to give her my soul with a pleasure'
Tourism minister Hisham Zazou stated that he is concerned about the negative impact of political events on cultural tourism.
Around 8.1 million tourists visited Egypt over the past ten months,...
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Demolishing the Giza Pyramids and the Sphinx??? I read about that in the Independent and on the blog Egyptian Chronicles I have little doubt that given half a chance Mr El Gohary would go ahead with...
Hundreds of truck drivers across the country continued their strike for the second day and blocked roads across the country Tuesday in protest against tax increases.
In Sharqiya, the protesters...
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The Police should think themselves lucky they only got rocks thrown at them, with all the illegal guns in circulation..
I think the Police are going to find it hard to regain control, they have been...
Controversial early closing hours for Egypt's shops postponed.
Government delays initiative to shut shops and restaurants early as it sets regulations for implementing decision, affirms Local...
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The latest on closing times...
A dispute with business owners over a government plan to close shops early ended with an agreement to extend the closure time to 12 am, Prime Minister Hesham Qandil...
The government has taken a first step to getting expensive energy subsidies under control, a key component of an economic reform program the cash-strapped government is presenting to the IMF to...
Taking a breath of fresh air is often is quite difficult in the bustling Cairene metropolis, specifically in fall when the seasonal black cloud caused by the burning of rice straw starts hovering...
Recently, over forty Hilton Worldwide staff members and general managers from the company’s 18 hotels across Egypt were joined by HE Ezzat Mohamed Saad, the governor of Luxor while spending the day...
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