A young Muslim-American of Egyptian origin, Nadeem Mazen, a councilor in the US city of Cambridge in Massachusetts, recently launched his electoral campaign to run as a candidate for the upcoming congressional elections. Mazen, 34, arrived in the US at...اقرأ المزيد
The Cabinet approved on Wednesday a proposal by the Medical Sector Committee of the Supreme Council of Universities on a draft resolution decreasing the duration of study at the Faculty of Medicine to five years. The proposal amends Article 154 of the...اقرأ المزيد
Egypt Air announced a 40 percent discount on its flights to John Kennedy Airport in New York every Monday and Wednesday and to more than 42 other destinations in the United States in cooperation with JetBlue Airways. Customers can take advantage of this...اقرأ المزيد
Following the reconciliation of Palestine’s two main political forces, brokered by Egyptian intelligence services, the head of the Gaza-based Islamist resistance movement Hamas, Ismail Hania, spoke to Egyptian media in a rare interview. Hania asserted...اقرأ المزيد
The Egyptian government will start next week demolishing vacated homes in the low-income area of the ‘Maspero Triangle,’ central Cairo. According to a statement released by the Housing Ministry on Tuesday, the government is planning to demolish the...اقرأ المزيد
Egypt is set to add human rights education as a main curriculum in schools and universities as part of a Parliament-sponsored plan, aimed to shed light on people’s rights. Head of the Parliament’s Human Rights Committee, Alaa Abed, suggested the new...اقرأ المزيد
Ongoing negotiations between the Egyptian and Russian government on the establishment of the Russian industrial zone in Egypt have made considerable progress and the two parties are close to signing the final contact on the project before the end of the...اقرأ المزيد
Parliament’s speaker Ali Abdel-Aal has warned in a statement at the opening session of the Parliament held on Monday against defamation campaigns that are target the legislative body. According to the state-run newspaper Al-Ahram, the warning was aimed...اقرأ المزيد
The UNESCO headquarters in Paris on October 9 will see elections for the organization’s top post of director-general, with eight candidates competing to succeed the Bulgarian Irina Bokova after the withdrawal of the Guatemalan candidate. The eight candidates...اقرأ المزيد
Egypt’s Supreme National Security Prosecution ordered the arrest of a young Egyptian man and woman on Tuesday for 15 days, pending ongoing investigations, on charges of waving a LGBT flag during a concert in Egypt. According to state-run newspaper Al-Ahram,...اقرأ المزيد