At a Wednesday press conference in Cairo held by the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), head of the Egyptian National Council for Women, Mervat Tellawy, said that Egypt needed "specialists and not MPs or radical Islamists" to discuss the principles of (...)
Amid post-revolution uncertainties, many Egyptians – especially Christians – are reportedly mulling emigration to Georgia. But the tiny Eurasian state may not be the immigrant's paradise they believe it to be
Outside the Georgian Embassy in Cairo, a (...)
Land allocated to Cairo's Zewail City for Science and Technology (ZCST) should be returned to Nile University (NU), Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court ruled on Wednesday. It also ruled that NU should be registered as a 'civil' university.
The (...)
Across the Arab world, 21 March marks the day for honouring mothers. Ahram Online talks with three Egyptian women who share their stories battling against the odds to secure a better future for their families.
"I dedicated my life to developing new (...)
Mohamed ElBaradei, head of Egypt's Constitution Party and a founding member of the National Salvation Front (NSF), is not hoping for a military takeover.
He made the comments on CBC's Hona El-Asematelevision show with Lamis El-Hadidy, Tuesday (...)
Protests to mark the second anniversary of the January 25 Revolution on Friday will be called "No to the Brotherhood state; the revolution continues."
During a press conference at the Journalists Syndicate on Sunday, sixteen political forces said (...)
At least five activists have been arrested after demonstrations in the coastal city of Alexandria were forcibly dispersed by security forces, official sources told Ahram Online.
Protesters gathered at Misr train station on Tuesday in response to an (...)
Clashes between protesters and police still ongoing but both sides switch the battlefield, moving to Simone Bolivar square adjacent to the United States embassy off Tahrir
Thousands of protesters are still camping out in Tahrir square to protest (...)
Doctors heighten their demands on their 39th day strike on Thursday, staging a mock funeral march from Omar Makram Mosque near Tahrir square to the nearby Maspero district.
Around 400 hundred doctors were present in front of the mosque in opposition (...)
In solidarity with the Egyptian Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics, which declared its rejection of FGM, the UN Population Fund commits to continue pushing to get health concerns around female circumcision better known
Magdy Khaled, United Nations (...)
24 hours after police used forceto disperse them, Nile University students have resumed their sit-in in the garden outside the campus, and one professor told Ahram Online he plans to hold his classes there
Nile University students continued their (...)
Authorities released five students Tuesday morning that were arrested when security forces dispersed a sit-in at the Zewail City for Science and Technology (ZCST) on Monday, according to Nile University student Alaa Sami, who confirmed an earlier NU (...)
NU head resigns as Central Security Forces break up the peaceful sit-in at the not-for-profit school where students have been locked into a protracted conflict against the stewardship of Egyptian renowned scientist Ahmed Zewail
President of Nile (...)
Egypt's Central Security Forces threatened, Monday, to disperse Nile University (NU) students and faculty members who have been staging a sit-in on the campus since 28 August.
Two students have, reportedly, been arrested outside the gates as they (...)
The American University in Cairo (AUC) administration reopened campus gates at 11:30am, after a group of students had forced a temporary closure in protest at rising tuition fees.
A campus newsletter, sent Sunday morning, included a statement (...)
Students at Egypt's trouble-plagued Nile University resort to sit-ins and hunger strikes in hopes of resolving their ongoing dispute with Ahmed Zewail's City for Science and Technology
Egyptian Minister of Higher Education Mustafa Mosaad on Sunday (...)
The military officers who were detained on 8 April 2011 for protesting in Tahrir Square will be released late on Monday, according to wife of Ahmed Shoman, another detained military officer who she said would also be freed
The wife of Ahmed Shoman, (...)
Prominent Egyptian chemist Ahmed Zewail bans NU students from using any of their campus buildings after the government granted NU land to Zewail City for Science and Technology (ZCST)
Wednesday 29 August is the second day since the start of a sit-in (...)
Although the Muslim Brotherhood have not officially confirmed that they have left the Tahrir sit-in, Ahram Online talks to protesters there who complain that the Brotherhood have betrayed the cause
After days of being packed with protesters, mainly (...)
Amid widespread political confusion and significant disillusionment, the choice of who to vote for in the second round run-off of Egypt's presidential elections has not been easy for many, especially for revolutionaries
On the eve of the historic (...)
Upcoming Morsi-Shafiq presidential showdown will likely be dogged by low voter turnout, experts say; government grants state employees two day holiday and reduces travel costs in a bid to bolster numbers
With only 46 per cent of registered voters (...)
Final verdicts slapping Mubarak, El-Adly with 10-yr jail sentences and exonerating the remaining defendants drew opposite reactions from pro- and anti-Mubarak protesters outside the courtroom on Saturday
On Saturday, dozens of Egyptians flocked to (...)
Final results of Egypt's first-round presidential polls flew in the face of all pre-election opinion surveys conducted by the Al-Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies, which for eight weeks put former Arab League chiefAmr Moussaat the (...)
Egypt's Mobinil has vowed to contest a Sunday court ruling which saw four senior staff sentenced to prison for adapting a transmitter in the Sinai, a move the prosecution said allowed Israel to monitor and record Egyptian phone calls.
"We're very (...)
Egypt's first democratically-held presidential elections, slated for later this month, have been accompanied by a battery of opinion polls. Some experts, however, say such polls are poor indicators of public opinion, and can actually serve to (...)