Setting Up Your Home
A stress free expat is a happy expat. Taking a job overseas can bring great gains to us as individuals and to the companies that brought us here, but often, for a new expat landing in Cairo, it can present … read more
Author Archives: Editor
Cross cultural & Orientation Training
The aim of Expat Cairo’s Cultural and Orientation Training is to ensure that you, your family or your employees have a smooth transition into Cairo, and can fully integrate into daily living and work situations. Repatriation training can also be … read more
Renewing Your Visa
The first crucial step when relocating to Egypt is ensuring your visa is valid and you have permission to remain in the country legally. You only get a 4 week visa on arrival. So the clock starts ticking as soon … read more
Three Egyptian Officers Rape Girl in Custody In Cairo
In a phone call, the 18 year-old young woman, who identified herself as Fatima, told her tragic story to Haitham Abu Khalil in his TV show entitled “Our Rights” aired on Al-Sharq TV channel. Fatima said that she was arrested … read more
Bus driver accused of killing GUC student released
A bus driver accused of killing a student at the German University in Cairo (GUC) was released from police custody pending investigations, Youm7 reported. Yara Tareq, a first year engineering student, was killed Monday after a university bus ran her … read more
Egypt Arrests 75 in Connection With Recent Attacks
Egypt’s Interior Ministry on Thursday announced its first arrests in connection with a series of attacks on businesses and utilities over the past several months. New and little-known groups with names like the Popular Resistance Movement and Revolutionary Punishment that … read more
Elections: Addressing voter apathy with cigarettes
Egyptian tobacco firms expect to generate LE150 million in extra sales during the upcoming parliamentary election campaign, an industry insider has said. Parliamentary candidates traditionally provide drinks, cigarettes and sheesha to people who attend election rallies and speeches, according to … read more
Blasts bring down electricity pylons in al-Sharqiya
Four electricity pylons collapsed following several blasts in Egypt’s al-Sharqiya governorate, north-east of Cairo, the state owned MENA news agency reported Thursday. No casualties were reported, but power outages hit some areas supplied by these units. Unknown assailants planted improvised … read more
How many light bulbs does it take to change Egypt?
One! And you are looking at it. All of us are struggling to cope with Egypt’s chronic electricity shortages. If your house is like mine your lights are out at least an hour of every day – if not more. … read more
Middle-East’s first ever tattoo expo held in Cairo
Tattooing is a practice that dates back to the birth of civilisation – the mummy of Amunet from Ancient Egypt is said to have be inked. Fast forward several thousand years to the present, and the ever-changing personality that surrounds … read more