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Egyptian beach tourism is here to stay, the tourism minister in the Islamist-led administration said on Tuesday, saying any Islamic investment in the sector would complement but not replace resorts...
Clashes at the US embassy in Cairo erupted late Wednesday and continued till the early hours of the next day, as around 200 protesters and Central Security Forces (CFS) stoned each other in another...
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The Bible
The Qur'an
The Bhagavad Gita
The Book of Mormon
The Holy Piby
The Talmud
When you are in prison and need a cigarette paper any of the above will do, it's not the content it's the 'quality...
“My mobility is restricted in my legs, other than that I’m a completely normal person,” Fatma Seif, head of Human Resources at the Ministry of Electricity, says.
“But how am I expected to reach my...
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Knowing some friends with special needs, and some children I have taught, and having heard and seen how difficult life is for them in my country which is much more accepting and which has laws that...
The board of the Doctors Syndicate will call for a strike in all hospitals countrywide starting 1 October , on the first of October unless their demands are met.
The strike will be preceded by...
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Perhaps they're also fed up of whole villages converging on them, never mind whole families, when someone is seriously ill.
Samsung signed a memorandum of understanding with the governor of Beni Suef on Thursday to build its first factory in the Middle East and Africa. The factory is planned to be fully operated in 2013....
Prime Minister Hesham Qandil has decided to form a ministerial committee to develop a strategy to invigorate the country’s local and foreign tourism activity.
Pay rises for state workers and a drop in tax revenues caused a surge in the country's budget deficit last year, says finance minister.
Egypt's state budget deficit for 2011/12 was far higher than...
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Thats typical, so why bother about raising money for the coffers, if they go through all this just to cancel it then it will be impossible to raise money for the coffers at all...Wonders never seem...
Back to school: Morsi gets black marks from Egypt's teachers.
Dozens of Egyptian teachers protest in central Cairo, unimpressed by new allowances and threatening not to return to the classroom when...
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You pay peanuts, you get monkeys. Just one of the reasons for the state of Egypt's education system. Even as only a Casual Teacher in my state here in Oz, I can earn over $300 a day (but no other...
The Egyptian Paralympics team left to the London games last month with little public attention or anticipation. But after winning 15 medals for Egypt and breaking two world records, they returned as...
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Hear, hear!!!
Parties and groups including the Constitution Party, the Wasat Party, the Popular Current, the April 6 Youth Movement, and the yet to be registered Strong Egypt Party showed up...
The Public Transport Authority threatened Tuesday to stage an all-out coinciding with the start of the school year.
They demand that control of the PTA be transferred to the Transportation Ministry...
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Agree, Who2, this bloke is now starting to take the flack, for the weeks and month following the Revolution and the lost time that should have been used to get things going. when you hear these...
31 pct drop in traffic accidents during 2011 probably due to months of military curfews following January 25 Revolution, says official statistics body.
There were 16,830 traffic accidents in Egypt...
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At least the streets would be empty Tony, and shoppers could go about their business in peace :lol: :lol:
On a typical evening at the Spicy Cafe in Hurghada, camera phones snapped shots of an unlikely pair: a local man robed in a white galabeya and a Russian tourist clad in a short dress and pumps,...
Egyptian tour guides protest outside the Egyptian Museum in central Cairo on Sunday, demanding better pay and conditions after a year of turmoil for the hospitality sector.
We want tourist...
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Of course the company is going to recommend a good tip for the guides – they pay them peanuts and expect them to be servile (or charming) enough to warrant big tips, or desperate enough to chase big...
Despite rich past, history fails to interest Egyptian students
Fatma Keshk
Thu, 30/08/2012 - 15:08
Instilling a sense of pride of the country’s past in the young is a priority for history educators...
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Fair enough, WI, I was just trying to help restore harmony. :) The issues the two of you are arguing about may not seem inconsequential to either of you I daresay, but from the outside looking in...
As Saudi-Egypt bridge looks likely to get the green light, environmentalists see red.
Environmentalists have urged caution after a US$3 billion bridge project linking Saudi Arabia to Egypt seems...
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Brilliant, that'll be fun is it at all windy out there, so jeep, supplies, change faith and I'm on my way to Mecca, sounds good business to me ferrying the faithful, so think Little Chef...or for you...
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