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We look forward to continuing to provide up to the minute news and information for the expat community throughout 2014 and beyond. We wish you a happy and prosperous New Year. Expat Cairo Team read more

Famous TV host and satirist Bassem Youssef signed with MBC group this week and will return back to the screen in February 2014, sources in MBC told Ahram Online. Youssef signed a contract with Saudi-owned MBC group in Dubai five … read more

Security forces have arrested 15 pro-Muslim Brotherhood female students after they had attempted to disrupt exams and assault their colleagues at the girls’ faculty of engineering in Azhar University, the Interior Ministry said. Pro-Brotherhood female students stirred chaos to terrorise … read more

Al Jazeera said Egyptian security forces arrested three of its journalists after the interior ministry accused the Qatar-based television channel of broadcasting illegally from a hotel suite together with a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Al Jazeera’s offices in Cairo … read more

The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Monday classified Egypt, Syria and Iraq as the most dangerous countries for journalists to operate in. The report said that 70 journalists were killed on the job in 2013; two-thirds were … read more

A Cairo Court for Urgent Matters has banned on Monday demonstrations on campus without prior authorisation, a judicial source told Ahram Online.   More details to follow read more

The Egyptian government will likely call a presidential election ahead of parliamentary polls, two officials said on Monday, rearranging the political roadmap in a way that could see army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi elected head of state by April. The … read more

Clashes erupted on Sunday morning between security forces and students near the main entrance to Azhar University’s dormitory, state television reported. Students went to the university to take their mid-term exams amid tight security after violent confrontations erupted on Saturday … read more

Police forces entered the Azhar University campus in response to a university administration request after escalating violence left one student dead on Saturday, the Egyptian state television reported. The police arrested 100 students suspected in taking part in acts of … read more

The discovery of a dummy bomb at Alexandria University on Saturday sparked panic on the campus. Explosives experts examined the device, found near the faculty of engineering, and told Al-Ahram Arabic website that it was a fake and did not … read more