Home accessories with an Egyptian twist

Joud Home Accessories combines Egyptian culture with modern designs everyday items

Thoraia Abou Bakr

PieRide takes carpooling to the next level

The new company combines two services to enable you to manoeuvre your way through Cairo’s traffic

Thoraia Abou Bakr

From January to June: Egypt’s ‘elite’ question

By virtue of my studies, my work and my own individual perversions, I happen to be one of those who enjoy reading political theory. However, I do not intend to…

Ziad A. Akl

Rent boys

By Philip Whitfield Who’d be in the president’s shoes? Adly schleps in the shadows. Morsi shuffles round prison in his. Mubarak hobbles in hospital pumps. Sadat died with his on.…

Daily News Egypt

Egypt left vulnerable after Qatari snub

By Farah Halime It was bound to happen sooner or later. Egypt has returned to Qatar the $2bn the Gulf state deposited in Egypt’s central bank after negotiations to convert…

Daily News Egypt

Merkel wins in Germany, ‘grand coalition’ likely: exit polls

Voters rewarded Merkel, often called the world's most powerful woman, with another four years at the helm for steering them unscathed through the eurozone debt turmoil that engulfed its southern…

Daily News Egypt

Fatah and Hamas divided over Rafah

The crossing has been repeatedly opened and shut since the ouster of Morsi

Hend Kortam

Cabinet denies deputising university security

Sohag and Banha universities decide they will not abide by decision despite cabinet’s claims denying its existence

Rana Muhammad Taha

Labour divided over multiple-unions, minimum income

ETUF decries multiple unions as a threat to national security

Mostafa Salem

Market registers highest gains in six weeks

Trading closes at 5,586.65, investor “selling appetite” said to be down

Sara Aggour