The Cairo Metro Company is failing to cover maintenance, electricity and water expenses due to a lack of resources, company spokesperson Ahmed Abdel-Hady told Ahram Online on Tuesday.
According to Abdel-Hady, the company still owes the subcontractor (...)
A proposal submitted in Egypt's parliament last week has triggered a backlash on social media for suggesting that an Egyptian mother who remarries after divorce should lose custody of her children to her ex-husband if he is able to find a female (...)
In the upper-middle class Rehab suburb of New Cairo, Ahmed Disouki, the owner of two local foul and falafel restaurants, complains that besides managing his restaurants, he now has to juggle another part-time job to survive.
“People like me who deal (...)
Part of a network of "walls" documenting in images the memory of the city, the Danish-Egyptian Dialogue Institute's (DEDI) Sanduq El-Dunia hosts a collection of personal and public images showing Cairo's daily life and landscape, its memory and (...)
Dozens of protesters gathered on Tuesday afternoon in front of Cairo's Gezira Club to object the mass poisoning of cats at the upscale sporting club.
Demonstrators and animal rights activists held banners denouncing the killings, with one banner (...)
A document drafted by political analyst and former MP Amr Elchoubaky has been put forward and discussed by several Egyptian political parties as a start for a possible political coalition.
The initiative is not the first of its kind. Prominent (...)
Ahmed Maher, Mohamed Adel and Ahmed Douma -- prominent activists from the 25 January uprising -- should be pardoned, and the protest law revoked, say Egyptian political parties
Several political parties and groups demanded on Tuesday that interim (...)
Hamdeen Sabahi — the only candidate in the presidential race so far besides El-Sisi — sets out why he is running, the task of building a civil democratic state, and what role the army should have in Egypt's national project
Nasserist politician (...)
Recent months have seen ongoing strike action from doctors in the public sector, who are demanding better pay and an increase in the state's healthcare budget.
Next week, the doctors – who have been striking repeatedly since 2011 – will be joined by (...)
Reports of alleged arbitrary arrests and torture have been on the rise in Egypt in recent months but the Ministry of Interior says police in the post-Mubarak era has been reformed.
Since a new protest law was issued in November, the security forces (...)
Unlike the former constitutional referendum in 2012, which saw an obvious split between Islamists and non-Islamists, polarisation has grown more complicated ahead of the upcoming constitutional referendum.
As much as Islamist political forces showed (...)
Several Egyptian human rights groups on Saturday claimed that the number of people killed in political violence in the summer after the ouster of president Mohamed Morsi was more than twice as many as those killed in the protests to oust Hosni (...)
A non-Brotherhood coalition has reportedly won the majority of seats in the Doctors Syndicate mid-term elections, although pro-Brotherhood members blame the political situation for their apparent losses
Initial reports suggest that the Muslim (...)
Ahram Online republishes testimonies from opposition activists who said they were subject to torture at hands of Muslim Brotherhood members during the December 2012 bloody clashes between supporters, opponents of President Morsi
Wednesday's bloody (...)
The Maspero Youth Union, a Coptic youth movement, met on Wednesday with the 50-member committee charged with amending the constitution, to propose several amendments to the charter.
According to union member Bishoy Tamry, the group proposed (...)
While supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi have called for mass protests on Friday, it remains unclear how far Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood is still capable of mobilising demonstrators, with turnout at protests last Friday relatively low.
The (...)
As the Muslim Brotherhood continues to reject the army-backed roadmap for political transition and with negotiations between the Islamists and the government reaching a deadlock, the coming phase of Egypt's political development remains (...)
In June 2012, a coalition of opposition parties and movements pledged support for Egypt's new president at the Fairmont Hotel. Disillusioned 12 months later, they are joining 30 June protests against Morsi
Just days before his inauguration, in (...)
“I am Abla Saadat, wife of freedom fighter Ahmed Saadat, detained in the Zionist occupation prisons and sentenced to 30 years.” This is how Abla Sadaat, wife of one of the symbols of Palestinian resistance, introduces herself.
"Sadaat was kidnapped (...)
Egypt's highest judicial authority invites President Morsi to visit the High Court following an earlier meeting aimed at containing mounting tension between judges and the presidency
The head of Egypt's Supreme Judicial Council extended on Tuesday (...)
The Egyptian Centre for Social and Economic Rights (ECESR) on Sunday issued a new report documenting labour strikes that took place in Egypt last year.
According to the report, in 2012, Egypt witnessed 1,969 protests by workers – in the government, (...)
Members of fact-finding committee on post-revolution rights violations by security personnel – appointed by President Morsi last summer – accuse presidency of ignoring their conclusions
Leaks from a report prepared by a fact-finding committee drawn (...)
Carrying on the legacy of her slain husband, leftist political figure Choukri Beleid,Basma Khalfaoui is confident his murder will eventually lead to another revolutionary wave.
Khalfaoui, speaking against An-Nahda Party and its inciting discourse, (...)
A sense of panic quickly spread among mourners as they prepared to leave Cairo's main Coptic cathedral on Sunday afternoon. Young men ran in and out of the church telling funeral attendees to beware of unknown assailants outside pelting mourners (...)
Unknown assailants attacked the main Coptic cathedral in Cairo's Abbasiya district on Sunday as hundreds of mourners held a funeral for victims of Saturday's sectarian clashes in the Qalioubiya governorate, north of Cairo. At least one was killed in (...)