Egypt considers banning the burqa as part of anti-extremism campaign.

Egypt is discussing a new draft law that would prevent women from wearing a burqa (nikab) in public spaces as part of a...

Egypt is one of the countries most affected by organ trafficking. Widespread poverty means criminal gangs can easily trick or pressure people into selling their organs. While authorities have passed...

“For travel reason, 10kg of potatoes are for sale to the highest bidder!” “I’ve broken up with my finance because his salary can’t buy us enough potatoes!” “I wish my husband-to-be will give me a...

Whether in Egypt’s working-class areas, villages, or on highways, it is ubiquitous. The tuk-tuk, a motorised rickshaw, has become a main mode of transport in this country of nearly 100 million...

Metzger Cecil Hotel.

The Jewish owner was expelled from Egypt in 1957, the hotel was nationalized in 1962, the government ‘paid’ $29,000 (1962 rates) for the hotel and the incompetent EGOTH, the...

Egypt yesterday announced the arrival of the first electric bus from China which will service the Alexandria Corniche Road.

Local media, including the state-run Al-Akhbar newspaper, reported that...

Some Try Harder.

China in the 60’s was dirt poor and Mao was killing and purging 10’s of millions and purging his own party of any competitors to his senile self and covering up his two disastrous...

I always used to think Nawal El Saadawi was a glimmer of light in the darkness of Egyptian human rights and democracy and her acquiescence to some of the regimes' outrages could be put down to...

The Private Sector is Alive in Egypt.

No its not.

The Egyptian Stock Exchange capitalization of shares as a measure of the private sector says.

1. Confidence is down badly, has been going down for...

During the ‘Techne Summit’ 2018 conference held at the Bibliotheca Alexandria, Minister of Communications and Information Technology Amr Talaat announced on Saturday that there will be over 20...

According to the foreign and local Egyptian media outlets, the govenor of Qalyubia decreed that images of Mickey Mouse and accompanying cartoon characters are to be replaced by military heroes on the...

It's many years since I've needed to change terminals on arrival, so need your help with up-to-date information, please.

I have Client A arriving from Oz early morning into T2. An hour and a half...

The Rt Hon Sir Jeffrey Donaldson PC MP.

I think there is little honorable about him, nor ‘right’ except the political right.

He is the Imperial UK Trade Envoy to Egypt. He has no skills,...

Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism will not be renewing a multi-million dollar contract with global advertising agency J. Walter Thompson, reported Enterprise on Thursday citing government sources....

Never Too Many Presidential Palaces.

There is the Heliopolis one – 700-1200 rooms – few photographs of its interior, a former hotel, protected by missile batteries and several thousand Presidential...

Egyptian Manufacturing Skills – Military.

Al Pravda (Cairo affiliate) has Egypt leading the world in Naval Military manufacturing. Wish it was the case. No I don't.

According to them the French...

iSharp Managing Director for the Middle East, Ashraf Hazin, announced on Tuesday the establishment of Egypt’s first ‘smart’ educational city in Giza governorate.

According to Hazin, the investment...

Evolution in Egypt.

No I don’t mean THAT – I mean Darwin and the geneticists that followed him including, oddly, the Czech, Augustinian friar Mendel.

Most people think that the modern versions of...

Blood Donation.

Its chaos, full of corruption, the Ministry of Health couldn’t care less and the blood that is available is often infected with HepC or worse. Egypt may hold a world record in this...

Alex governor. Got rid of.

There were signs of change – well not – just false starts under Morsi.

Take this case. The Alex Governor used makeshift offices to house them since protesters had burnt...