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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Last December, the Tourism Development Authority (TDA) allocated large chunks of land located in the North of Lake Qarun Protected Area to the real estate developer Amer Group.
The North of Lake Qarun area has been a protected prea since the 1980s...
The Egyptian Ministry of Environment has withdrawn its support for this year's World Environment Day (WED) celebrations, stating that the ministry has other concerns that need to be given priority over the event.
The WED falls on 5 June every...
The new book entitled “Le Caire - réinventer la ville” - Cairo, reinventing the city - results from collaboration between two researchers from the downtown-based Centre of Economic, Legal and Social Studies and Documentation (CEDEJ) and...
From the Leningrad State University in the former USSR to the Aswan South Valley University, well-respected Russian botanist and ecologist Irina Springuel has had an unusual path in life.
Today, as an older scientist who works for the UN...
Urban development with a special emphasis on eco-responsible buildings has imposed itself as one of the key environmental debates in Egypt's evolution.
Longstanding problems including rampant pollution, overpopulation and poor waste processing,...
Paul Van Son is the CEO of the Munich-based Desertec Industrial Initiative (Dii), a non-profit foundation that aims at supplying the MENA region and Europe with solar and wind power from the desert.
Dii and Van Son are making plans as far ahead as...
Dina Zulfikar remembers how her passion for animals started - at her aunt and uncle's flat in Tahrir Square.
"Their love for pets led them to rescue wounded stray dogs that had been hit by cars and bring them to the vet,"...
Gamea al Sananeya is the street that epitomizes the bustling and colorful neighborhood of Wekalat al Balah, located on the Nile corniche halfway between the tall and slender white building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Nile...
A week ago, Essam Sharaf announced with great fanfare the launch of the “Corridor of Development” mega project, designed by Egyptian-American scientist Farouk al-Baz, and carrying a US$24 billion initial budget.
Al-Baz, who has been...
Bolivia is about to grant nature similar rights to those of its human citizens with a new set of rules dubbed “The Law of Mother Earth”.
The law will establish 11 new rights for nature including the right to exist, the right to continue...
