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12 Million Egyptians to be Affected by Climate Change

A study conducted by the Center for Remote Sensing at Boston University, commissioned by the Arab Forum for Environment and Development, warned that Egypt would be one of the Arab countries most affected by climate change...

China sees Egypt as gateway to Africa

Straddling Asia and Africa with a coastline facing Europe, Egypt has long been at the center of cultural and economic exchange between the East and West. These days, exotic spices have been replaced by denim jeans and caravansaries have turned into sprawling free trade zones in the vast Sahara Desert. China, the Asian economic powerhouse, has rediscovered the millenniums-old trade routes leading to Africa and hopes this economic cooperation can bring increased prosperity to both parties...

Dozens Demonstrate Outside Israeli Embassy

Dozens of foreigners of different nationalities protested on Friday afternoon in front of the Israeli Embassy in Cairo after the Egyptian authorities prevented them from traveling to Gaza...

Egypt Releases 2009 Economic Indicators

The report on economic and social indicators of Egypt prepared by the Center for Information and Decision Support Center of the Egyptian Cabinet showed a decline in the number of citizens who have used trains as a means of transportation, down from 333 million passengers during the period last year to around 245 million passengers during the same period last year of 2009...

Egypt Ranks 143 in Annual Report on Press Freedom

The annual report by Reporters Without Borders has ranked Egypt very low among 175 countries in the area of media and press freedom in 2009..

Court Confirms Ban on “Fully Veiled” Students

The Administrative Judiciary Court on Sunday issued a decision that confirms universities will ban female students, “who wear the full veil that covers the face,”..

New Pharaonic Tombs Discovered at Saqqara

The Egyptian Supreme Council for Antiquities said on Monday that a mission of the council has discovered two Pharaonic tombs that date back to the 26th Pharaonic Dynasty (500 BC) in the Saqarra area..

Report Warns on Spread of HIV in Egypt

A report issued by the Center for Information and Decision Support of the Council of Ministers has stated that Egypt is moving towards curb the spread of the epidemic of HIV in the light of the rising number of people living with the disease...

Swine Flu Deaths Reach 159

On Monday 10 new deaths were reported as a result of the H1N1 virus...

Egyptian Activists File Suit To Stop Gaza Wall

A former Egyptian ambassador, Ibrahim Yousry, in addition to 250 Egyptian and foreign political activists, jurists and parliamentarians filed a lawsuit before an administrative court on Monday against both President Mubarak, Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif, and Ministers of the Interior and Foreign Affairs, Ahmed Aboul Gheit and Habib Al- Adli...

Lifeline Convoy Faces Violent Clashes on Way to Gaza

The “Lifeline” convoy organized by “Viva Palestina” and headed by the prominent British MP George Galloway began moving from the Port of El Arish to the Rafah crossing on its way to the Gaza Strip on Wednesday after a long day of clashes between the organizers of the Convoy and Egyptian security services...

Cairo to Host Conference on Stolen Antiquities

The Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities announced on Wednesday that 30 countries that possess ancient Egyptian monuments and artifacts will participate in a conference next April in Cairo to discuss the restoration and recovery of the artifacts...

Al Ahram Releases Study on Corruption in Egypt

A recent report by the Al Ahram Center for Strategic Studies showed that a high portion of Egyptians believe that the recent rise in commodity prices is a manifestation of systemic corruption...

600 Israelis Travel to Egypt for Pilgrimage

Dozens of Israelis are making an annual pilgrimage to the tomb of a 19th-century Jewish holy man in Egypt’s Nile Delta...

Report: Egypt is the World’s #1 Consumer of Wheat

The International Grains Council has ranked Egypt number five on the list of the top 18 countries importing grain worldwide...

Middle East Blogger of the Year: Arabawy

He is the quintessential loud-spoken quiet guy. An oxymoron, probably, but Hossam el-Hamalawy exudes these traits to preciseness...

Farouk Hosni Calls Salafists Stumbling Blocks for Development

Farouk Hosni, the Egyptian Minister of Culture, said that the Salafists fundamentalists who adhere to a very strict interpretation of Islam, are responsible for the state of degradation and underdevelopment in Egypt, and that they try to influence the religious sentiments of the people for their own interests...

Gaza Freedom March Day Two: Arrests, a UN protest and Joe Sacco

I have, in the weeks prior to Code Pink D-Day of the 28th of December, received many e-mails and updates...

Suez Revenue Down $650 Million

A report issued by the Ministry of Economic Development on the lack of income generated by the Suez Canal has revealed that the revenues of the Canal dropped by $650 million in the past 3 months due to the world economic crisis that has caused international traffic to shrink in the first quarter of this year...

Egypt’s “Metal Wall” Punishes Hamas

The mounting criticism of the Egyptian Government by human rights organizations continued as Egypt began to construct a metal wall along its borders with Gaza Strip and prevented the passage of the Viva Palestina convoy to the Strip..