security
Official: Arab tourists to Egypt dropped in first half of 2011
Business
August 1, 2011
Official: Arab tourists to Egypt dropped in first half of 2011
The number of Arab tourists who visited Egypt in the first half of 2011 dropped by 15.3 percent compared to…
Interior minister inspects Mubarak’s courtroom
Egypt
August 1, 2011
Interior minister inspects Mubarak’s courtroom
Egyptian Interior Minister Mansour al-Essawy on Monday inspected the courtroom at the Police Academy in New Cairo, where Hosni Mubarak’s trial will take…
Egypt hires Bedouin guards for Sinai gas pipeline
Egypt
August 1, 2011
Egypt hires Bedouin guards for Sinai gas pipeline
The companies managing the pipeline that supplies Israel with Egyptian natural gas have contracted Bedouin tribes to protect the facility,…
Zamalek residents take law and order into their own hands
Life & Style
July 31, 2011
Zamalek residents take law and order into their own hands
Security, street lighting, traffic control, garbage collection and recycling: all services that typically belong exclusively to the realm of government.…
Opening streets around Cairo’s US and UK embassies doubtful despite court order
Egypt
July 31, 2011
Opening streets around Cairo’s US and UK embassies doubtful despite court order
Despite a court order issued by the supreme administrative court on 27 July to reopen all the streets around the…
Dear Washington: We’ve had a revolution
Opinion
July 27, 2011
Dear Washington: We’ve had a revolution
It seems that many American policy-makers and think tanks are unaware that Egypt has had a revolution. Even after the…
Medinet Nasr block traffic to protest encroachment by thugs
Egypt
July 23, 2011
Medinet Nasr block traffic to protest encroachment by thugs
Medinet Nasr residents demonstrated near a police station on Friday, blocking traffic on the district's main road to demand security…
Church cancels ceremony due to political conditions
Egypt
July 17, 2011
Church cancels ceremony due to political conditions
The Coptic Orthodox Church has called off a church celebration due to the current political and security conditions in the…
Car insurance companies mull raising premiums by 50%
Business
July 14, 2011
Car insurance companies mull raising premiums by 50%
Ahmed Abul Enein, director of car insurance at the Misr Insurance Company, said that the Egyptian Union of Insurance Companies…
Hospitals, vulnerable to attack, limit healthcare in face of security vacuum
Egypt
July 11, 2011
Hospitals, vulnerable to attack, limit healthcare in face of security vacuum
Dr. Rashwan Shaaban remembers bitterly the two or three days that Banha University Hospital kept its doors closed. On one…