Photopia launches photography course
Located in Korba, Heliopolis, Photopia is a photography hub that aims to create a space where anyone interested in or related to photography can find what he or she needs.
Fawanees: the colourful world of Ramadan lanterns
Strolling around the area it was hard to imagine that anyone who visited could resist leaving without buying at least one lantern and I succumbed to the temptation. The fawanees…
DJ Scratch Battle 2012 has started
This year we hope to build on that success and to offer a wide variety of prizes for everyone that participates. We have more sponsors and big names supporting us…
Stock market performance surpasses analysts’ Ramadan forecast
By Fatheya Al-Garhy The Egyptian Stock Exchange (EGX) closed after the first session of Ramadan with prices maintaining relative stability, the opposite of what most analysts expected. Observers predicted that the…
FJP takes a shot at fixing slums
By Mohamed Darwish Solving the problem of slums located all over Cairo is part of President Mohamed Morsy’s first-100-days presidential programme. He has stressed that housing is among the fundamental…
Regional Briefs
Libya Libya’s Olympic chief was released on Sunday, less than a week before the Olympic games begin in London, United Kingdom. His abductors never made a public statement and Olympic…
Saudi King calls for Muslim Leader Summit
Summit will address ‘sedition and fragmentation’ in the aftermath of the Arab uprisings
Notary offices on week-long strike across Egypt
By Hend El-Behary Employees of notary offices throughout Egypt continued their strikes into the eighth day on Tuesday. The nationwide strike started on 15 July when protests began in Cairo,…
Scores die in Iraq attacks
Coordinated attacks targeting security personnel in both Sunni and Shia neighbourhoods ripped through Iraq
Constituent Assembly to reconvene over Shari’a articles
The body tasked with writing the constitution will meet on Tuesday to debate some of the document’s more controversial articles
