Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi is set to visit the United States upon invitation from his counterpart President Donald Trump the first week in April, Al-Ahram newspaper reported on Sunday. During the three-day visit, the leaders will discuss bilateral cooperation as … read more
Roman Catholic Pope Francis is scheduled to visit Egypt in the last week of April upon the invitation of President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, a presidency statement said on Saturday. Pope Francis’s itinerary will include visits to Al-Azhar – the world’s foremost … read more
Egypt and Jordan are working with the Palestinian Authority to push for the establishing of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, Egyptian foreign minister Sameh Shoukry and his Jordanian counterpart Ayman Al-Safadi said in Cairo on Thursday. The two … read more
Egypt’s former president Hosni Mubarak, who is under investigation over an increase in his personal wealth since 2011, filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the minister of justice and the general prosecution to unfreeze EGP 61 million of his assets. … read more
UK travel company Thomas Cook has announced it has a number of flights planned to Egypt’s Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh in November 2017, raising hopes for the revival of the Red Sea tourism sector which has been hit … read more
Al-Masry Al-Youm Egypt ranks third place among Arab countries on the Global Hunger Index for 2016 and in 59th place among 118 countries surveyed, according to the Central Agency for Public Mobilization And Statistics (CAPMAS). On the Global Food Security Index, Egypt … read more
MENA The eight-meter statue of Ramses II and other relics unearthed in Matariya arrived at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square early on Thursday. State-run Nile News TV channel aired the transfer of the statue, which was carried out by the … read more
Egypt’s Hurghada governorate will host its first ever edition of the Somabay Egyptian Solar Challenge (SESC) where a number of domestic as well as international teams will race solar cars, state news agency MENA reported. The competition will take place … read more
Al-Masry Al-Youm Meteorologists expect mild weather to prevail on Friday across most of the country to be hotter in southern Upper Egypt; temperatures will drop overnight across all parts. Visibility will decrease in the morning due to dense mist throughout Lower … read more
By Emad Omar “Everything has an end, even dreams”, whispered a friend saying goodbye to me at Beirut airport on the last day of three weeks I spent in Lebanon in the mid-nineties. Quoted from a song of Fairouz, the … read more