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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This article is part of Al-Masry Al-Youm’s weekly “Endangered Species” series, covering Egypt’s endangered flora and fauna.   Egypt’s gazelle population has decreased consistently and drastically for the past four...
Boubker Benseddiq, a 26-year-old Moroccan national, recently graduated from INSA-Toulouse, a well-respected French public university of engineering. In May, he got a job as an engineer in the petroleum industry. Right after being hired, he handed...
This month, the first adaptation of Egyptian novelist Alaa al-Aswany's “Chicago” is showing at the Amandiers Theater in the Parisian suburb of Nanterre. Published in 2006, “Chicago” depicts the lives of Egyptian students...
A Fustat-based NGO is the first Egyptian organization to compete in the BBC's World Challenge, which rewards environmental and social projects worldwide. BBC World News and Newsweek selected "El Nafeza" (The Window) as one of 12...
Whenever a fancy hotel holds an art exhibition in its lobby, it is normal to be a bit skeptical. But the photographs in the five-star Semiramis hotel's exhibition “Preservation and Wildlife: The Other Side of Sinai” in partnership...
Egypt's asbestos factories were officially closed down in 2005, and yet the impact of this extremely dangerous material is being felt more vividly than ever today, because of the long timespan between the actual exposure to deadly asbestos...
Egyptian authorities have declared a state of emergency along the Red Sea coast after Egypt’s General Petroleum Corporation informed local officials that one of the company's wells has been leaking from three spots in Gamsha, a village...
  Barfleur is France’s smallest town, occupying less than 60 hectares at the extreme western tip of Lower Normandy, and has been labeled one of the country’s most charming villages.    The town is battered by the salty...
“Global Sister Cities and Twinning Summit”, a three-day series of conferences that ended Friday at the Fairmont Nile Tower, brought together leaders from citizen diplomacy organizations to discuss the key role played by the people-to-...
During the 1980s, an Egyptian shrimp farmer imported what he thought were the larvae of US freshwater shrimp. After growing the new species in his fish farm, however, he discovered that instead of shrimp, the larvae had developed into sharp-...