Egyptian archaeologists on Thursday dashed local hopes that a newly discovered ancient sarcophagus might contain the remains of Alexander the Great, finding instead the mummies of what appeared to be a family of three. Workmen inadvertently unearthed the approximately 2,000-year-old … read more
Tamer El Said’s In the Last Days of the City documents life in the Egyptian capital over 10 years, but authorities have refused him a permit to show it. Ask a Cairo resident to describe the most frustrating thing about … read more
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi told Italy’s visiting interior minister on Wednesday that Egypt was determined to conclude an investigation into the 2016 murder of an Italian student and bring his killers to justice, the presidential palace said. Giulio Regeni disappeared … read more
Egypt on Wednesday approved a deal settling a land dispute pitting the government against a group of international investors who owned a stake in a company controlled by one of the country’s richest men, a senior government official directly involved … read more
Egypt is offering citizenship to foreigners who deposit at least 7 million Egyptian pounds ($392,000) and then hand it over to the Treasury after five years, an amendment passed by parliament on Monday said. Egypt has been looking to boost … read more
An Egyptian military court on Tuesday reportedly handed prison terms to 16 alleged anti-coup supporters for criminal offenses. In a statement, defense committee member Khalid Al-Misri said the northern Cairo court sentenced 16 people to 25 years after convicting them … read more
As Egypt is cracking down on militants across the country, particularly in the country’s Sinai region, some experts and rights groups have voiced concerns that the country’s security forces are using counter-terrorism measures to target dissidents. “Three-per-day forced disappearances where … read more
Egypt’s parliament has passed a law giving the state powers to block social media accounts and penalize journalists held to be publishing fake news. Under the law passed on Monday, social media accounts and blogs with more than 5,000 followers … read more
Half of the members of the Journalists Union Council have rejected amendments made by the House of Representatives to the journalism law. They stressed that the government had developed “mock amendments” that kept the essence of articles restricting the freedom … read more
Egypt’s annual urban consumer inflation surged to 14.4 percent in June, from 11.4 percent in May, the official statistics agency CAPMAS said on Tuesday, after 10 months of steady decline, Reuters reported. The increase, which took economists by surprise, came … read more