CAIRO - Abandoning her domestic chores, Rokia Mohamed, a housewife, rushed to open her laptop and write a comment on the social networking website Facebook, after she heard the news about the storming of the Israeli Embassy in Giza last Friday.
She (...)
CAIRO - Egyptians spend half of their income on foodstuffs, drinks and medical care, a survey by the State-backed Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS) has disclosed.
“Expenditure on food and drinks accounts for 43.6 per (...)
CAIRO - Clutching his photo, tens of supporters of Egyptian cleric Omar Abdel-Rahman, currently in jail in America, continued to protest outside the American Embassy in Cairo for the sixth day in a row, threatening escalation if the United States (...)
CAIRO – In a choked and desperate voice, a young man talks about his 35-year-old wife's chronic disease. Her husband tries to pull himself together, but he seems to have lost all hope for his wife who suffers from kidney failure.
The wife's journey (...)
CAIRO - Lying on a stretcher, looking feeble with his pale, wrinkled face and sunken, perplexed eyes, the way Mubarak looked in the cage has divided Egyptians from different social and intellectual backgrounds over the former president's (...)
CAIRO - Instead of watching the rerun of her favourite soap opera, which she normally waits for impatiently every morning, Rokia Osama, a housewife, prefers to watch the trial of the century.
"Honestly speaking, I have decided to watch the trial on (...)
CAIRO – Schoolteacher Ahmed Darwish usually buys dried fruit and nuts, in order to celebrate the holy fasting month of Ramadan; but this year, the world of yameesh, which denotes dried fruit and nuts, seems to have totally changed.
As he used his (...)
CAIRO - The Egyptian revolution has not finished yet and there are many risks still to be faced amid great expectations of the Egyptian people, the president of the 27-member European Union said in Cairo.
As part of his two-day visit to Egypt, (...)
CAIRO - You feel that angels are watching, as many people voluntarily donate their blood to save others' lives.
These people donated blood at an event organised by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, in collaboration with the National (...)
CAIRO - Revolts in some countries bring freedom, destruction in others. In Egypt's case, the anti-Mubarak popular uprising brought money, particularly to the owners of apartments overlooking Al Tahrir Square, the seething point of anger against the (...)
CAIRO - Getting rid of junk is a heavy burden for many people. Useless items pile sky-high in their apartments and take too much space. But for some these items are real treasures; they crave to collect and transform them into unique and (...)
CAIRO - A red ribbon is wrapped around a baby's small body, suspending it in a white space. This photo attracted many people's attention, since a baby symbolises innocence and helplessness in our culture. It is not surprising that this photo won the (...)
CAIRO - Cleaning the dust accumulated over piles of books in a delicate and careful manner, a worker in one of central Cairo bookstores was looking every now and then at the door in the hope that one of the many passers-by in this crowded area to (...)
CAIRO - Thousands of Egyptian workers poured onto the streets on Sunday to celebrate May Day, the first time after Egyptians managed to oust Hosni Mubarak who ruled this country for the past 30 years, chanting slogans and expressing grievances.
The (...)
CAIRO - Judges supervising the Egyptian Writers' Union elections announced that junior union members had managed to win almost half of the seats on the 30-member board, reflecting the growing power of youth inside the union.
Mohamed Salmawi, the (...)
CAIRO - Nicely and modestly dressed, Hamdeen Sabahi had to contradict his funny nature by sitting very seriously in front of this very large crowd of people.
The Egyptian politician's eyes glittered with hope – presidential one – but kindness (...)
CAIRO - The Egyptians' revolution has amazed the world, proving an inspiration to others as far afield as the US. Madison, a city in the US state of Wisconsin, began its own protests on February 15, only four days after President Mubarak stepped (...)