Ahram Online spoke to Nayer Nagui, the principle conductor and artistic director of the Cairo Opera Orchestra, who lead a protest by opera house artists and staff on Tuesday.
The artists, who were supposed to perform Verdi's operaAidaon the stage of (...)
Egypt's Culture Minister Alaa Abdel-Aziz dismissed the head of the Cairo Opera House on Tuesday.
Ines Abdel-Dayem, who was appointed in 2012 by the previous minister for culture, told Ahram Arabic that she had not been informed of the reasons behind (...)
Sidi Barrani(Saint Barrani), Mohamed Salah El-Azab, Cairo: Dar Al-Shorouk, 2010. pp 203
“When my grandfather died for the first time, he owned nothing but a stick made of low-quality wood and a long galabeya”*
With these unusual words Mohamed (...)
Minister of Agriculture Salah Youssef has prohibited construction on reclaimed agricultural land. The law, effective immediately, exempts service facilities for farms, which could be built over 2 percent of the total land area.
“We shall take legal (...)
The North Cairo Criminal Court and presiding Judge Ahmed Fahmy today heard testimony from Egyptian Interior Minister Gen.
Mansour el-Issawy in the case against ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, his two sons Gamal and Alaa, former Interior (...)
Security forces were heavily deployed in front of the Police Academy hosting the trial of former President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, his sons Alaa and Gamal, former Interior Minister Habib el-Adly and six of Adly's top aides, who are accused of killing (...)
The Egyptian Minister of Interior, Mansour el-Essawi arrived at Cairo Criminal Court in the police academy in order to testify in today's trial session of the former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his sons, Gamal and Alaa, the former Minister (...)
CAIRO: Supporters of imprisoned Shiekh Omar Abdel-Rahman today demonstrated outside the Fifth Settlement Police Headquarters where ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, his two sons Gamal and Alaa, former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly and his (...)
Al-Ragul zu Al-Badla Al-Baidaa Al-Sharkskin: Wakae' Khorug Osra Yahudeya min Masr(The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: The Proceedings of a Jewish Family's Exodus from Egypt), Lucette Lagnado, translated by Mustafa El-Tanany and Medhat Maklad and (...)
Sidi Barrani (Saint Barrani), Mohamed Salah El-Azab, Cairo: Dar El-Shorouk, 2010. pp 203
“When my grandfather died for the first time, he owned nothing but a stick made of low-quality wood and a long galabeya”*
With these unusual words (...)
Egypt's National Democratic Party (NDP) members are submitting applications to party offices throughout the country, declaring their intentions to run in the upcoming People's Assembly elections.
A large number of government officials and ministers (...)
Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif will chair a meeting of the Supreme Nile Water Commission in Alexandria on Thursday to discuss investment opportunities for Egyptian companies in states of the Nile Basin.
The meeting is expected to be attended by 11 (...)
Disputes among Egypt and Nile basin countries are "technical" as opposed to “political,” and there is sufficient Nile water for all Nile basin countries, according to Mohamed Nasr Eddin Allam, Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources.
Allam, (...)
Various experts and cattle breeders believe that butchers are responsible for the recent rise in meat prices. On top of this, Egypt has lost nearly 900,000 cattle due to the import of sick cattle from abroad, said Saad el-Hayany, president of the (...)