The Egyptian public prosecution issued an arrest warrant against the deputy head of the Journalists Union and the Freedoms Committee Khaled Al-Balshy on charges of verbal assault against the police and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, for inciting protests and creating a public disturbance, as well as posting calls on social media to oust the […]

Today in Egypt, human rights activists are banned from traveling, they are investigated for receiving foreign funding and they are regularly harassed by the Ministry of Social Solidarity and other government agencies for receiving funds. Today in Egypt, human rights activists are banned from traveling, they are investigated for receiving foreign funding and they are […]

President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi spares no opportunity in demanding that citizens tighten their belts and share the financial burdens Egypt has experienced due to difficult economic conditions. In the mean time, nine new prisons have been built since 2013, over and above 382 detention centers inside police stations across the Egyptian governorates. Having been demolished […]

After forming the statue’s clay body, he put an electric lamp in his head and a shoe in his mouth, stabbed a knife in his neck and tied him by a metal chain. “The lamp means that he is a thinker, the shoe in his mouth means he cannot object to anything, the knife symbolizes […]

The Nubia assumed that the 2014 Constitution, in which they participated in writing an important amendment, they assumed their freedom of movement was finally secured.  But when five members of the General Nubian Union (GNU) recently applied to the Border Guards Intelligence (BGI) to visit the villages of Qastal and Adndan, east of Lake Nasser […]

Glassblowing is one of the oldest handcrafts known to Egyptians for  thousands of years. It requires patience, artistic ability and skill. Over time and due to advancing industry, this handcraft has dwindled and today very few people practice it. Yet there are still museums, mosques, and churches that display the crafts being upheld by a […]

Alexandria’s history is rife with local journalism. Today, however, most of these newspapers have since closed while others have gone online to save money. The first local paper– Alexandria’s Commercial Magazine – was released in 1946 by the Alexandria Chamber of Commerce (ACC). The monthly magazine was printed in black and white in the Thagher […]

The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) recently devalued the Egyptian pound to L.E8.85 to the US dollar compared to nearly L.E. 9 in the black market. Correspondents is trying to understand the crisis and its causes, as well as decisions made by the CBE, by asking a group of economists a number of questions. Why […]

“My children will starve to death,” says Abir Sayed, a 35-year-old housewife. Since she delivered her twins four months ago after a long period of wait during which time she and her husband, a 42-year-old taxi driver, had seen several doctors and she had been subjected to different surgeries and treatments, Sayed has been trying […]