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.
Contributions
News
Egypt’s capital spreads cement tentacles over what used to be extremely viable agricultural land, replacing it with rickety brick towers. North and south, east and west, as far as the eye can see, Cairo is an immensity of grey, dotted with...
In a study published today in “Food and Chemical Toxicology,” a team of scientists say that rats fed Roundup-tolerant genetically modified corn (NK603) for two years developed cancers, tumors and multiple organ damage.
The team of...
There is a place in Egypt where the mountain blossoms on one side, where sea moisture accumulates on the mountaintop and forms rivulets that trickle down the hill and spur insatiable, rainforest-like vegetation inhabited by the most incredible...
Residents of Sansaft, a village in Monufiya Governorate, are suffering from an epidemic of severely contaminated local water supplies. Reports of the outbreak began to surface on Tuesday, just after Eid al-Fitr, as residents began rushing to local...
When scientist Hussein Kaoud decided to test genetically modified food on rats, he produced results that were extremely alarming and corroborate the conclusions that some international, independent scientists have reached.
Kaoud, of Cairo University...
In 2008, Egypt reached an agreement with the US-based Monsanto Corporation to import, grow and sell the company's genetically-modified maize.
The first shipment of 70 tons arrived in Egypt in December 2010 and was planted in ten governorates...
Walking through the narrow alleys of Khan al-Khalili bazaar in Cairo, it is hard to miss the white sculptures and statues displayed openly in shop windows. But while these are likely camel bone, some shops still secretly carry ivory, even though it...
It is a common perception worldwide that drinking bottled water is safer than consuming tap water. In Egypt specifically, people have little faith in the safety of the water that runs from the tap, in light of the country’s exceedingly high...
Egypt’s research is currently experiencing a technological breakthrough with the recent introduction of a high-speed internet network that offers research institutes and universities access to a data transfer speed of up to 10 gigabits per...
The Desertec Foundation is encouraging universities and research centers across the Middle East to collaborate and train high-skilled professionals in renewable energy. This German not-for-profit envisions transforming the region’s deserts...
