Louise Sarant
Environment Editor
Louise studied journalism in the EDJ School of journalism in Nice, France and graduated in 2007. She joined the Deutsche Welle Radio French edition as a reporter for a few months before landing in Cairo where she continued studying Arabic as well as freelancing for Al-Ahram Hebdo and Alif, a weekly online newspaper. She also contributed to the Egyptian monthly Community Times.
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Sherif Baha el-Din is one of Egypt’s most prominent naturalists. His various discoveries, his contribution to conservation and his 30-year-long involvement in developing Egypt’s protected areas have made him a key figure in environmental...
Chronicling the hardships of Egypt’s small farmers, Egyptian-German filmmaker and writer Philip Rizk will screen his new documentary Thursday night ahead of World Environment Day in June.
This year’s World Environment theme, “Our...
Entering the dimly-lit room of the George restaurant in Ismailia necessitates a generous push of two rows of doors, which keep the legendary silence of the city at bay and invite you to step into an environment frozen in time. The elegantly dressed...
Mohamed Kassas is a living legend. Anyone with an interest in Egypt's environmental issues is familiar with this 90-year old ray-ban bespectacled professor of botany from Cairo University. His long and rich career reflects the environmental...
In light of the environmental and human tragedy unraveling in Japan, countries equipped with nuclear power are trembling. The idea of nuclear energy, traditionally presented as emission-free and environmentally-friendly overall, has become...
Although the Egyptian revolution has been full of highlights, the human shield that pro-democracy protesters formed spontaneously to protect the Egyptian Museum on Tahrir Square on 28 January is an event marked with indelible ink. It was the first...
Less than a century ago, it was common to see vultures flying over Cairo and nesting in some of the city’s buildings. Today, the vulture population in Egypt is drastically declining due to various threats.
Six species of vultures are recorded...
About a hundred people were waiting in an orderly queue in front of al-Imam Ali Elementary School in Dokki to cast their vote in the referendum on the constitutional amendments Saturday. Some came with their entire families, with mothers, husbands...
Egyptians are taking to polling stations nationwide to cast their vote in a referendum on constitutional amendments Saturday, often with an overwhelming sense of pride and trust in the value of their ballots.
Long queues of voters wrapped around...
On the busy Nile Street in Giza is al-Balsam bookstore, a two-story space filled with colorful books for children, teenagers and young adults.
The ground floor displays a large variety of books in Arabic, some published by the al-Balsam publishing...
