Foreign maids: a flourishing new market in Egypt
Every month, hundreds of immigrants, whether Nigerians, Indonesians or Filipinos, arrive in Cairo seeking employment as cleaners and babysitters. More and more families are hiring foreigners rather than Egyptians as…
Grace and legends combine in exquisite performance
India by the Nile festival ends with an evening of traditional dance.
Fundraising concert a great success
The evening of classical oriental and western music was organised to benefit Syrian refugees in Egypt.
Calling all animal activists
Six days ago, three grizzly bears died at Giza Zoo. Reports on the news stated that the three female bears were fighting over a male. Thus ensued a slew of…
The popular myth of the ‘unpopular Ikhwan’
By Dr Mohamed A. Fouad We all know it or seem to think we know it; we like to advance several pieces of evidence to suggest this infamous statement: “The…
The Brotherhood’s democratic failures
Congratulations everyone, the Muslim Brotherhood is back, this time bigger and better, reaching further and deeper into everything. This absurd statement is unfortunately the overall meaning of the chain of…
Barbatoze
Concept inspired by Luiz Sanchez Sherif Adel is a Cairo based cartoonist and dentist. Running his online comics blog and working on his first graphic novel. www.barbatoze.com
Egyptian National Railways seeks China cooperation to purchase 700 train cars for $570m
A source from within ENR stated that Zakaria received a surprise invitation from the Chinese company to discuss further cooperation between the two sides, adding that the meeting began last…
Egyptian Central Bank announces key interest rates will not change
Egypt’s Central Bank recently announced on its website that key interest rates on deposits and loans would remain unchanged after a meeting held by its committee for monetary policy.