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Member of the House of Representatives Dina Abdel Aziz said on Saturday that she has suggested that students who participate in the upcoming presidential elections will be allocated two extra grade points as an incentive for taking part in the country’s political process. During a phone-in on...

Abu Dhabi: The Egyptian Parliament’s Speaker stressed his country’s support to the Gulf states and rejected any threat to them, or meddling in the region’s affairs. Dr Ali Abdul Aal said on Monday that the Gulf’s security is a red line. “The security of the Gulf — the UAE in its heart — is the...

The official transfer control over the border crossings between the Gaza Strip and Egypt to the Palestinian unity government was marked by the playing of two anthems, the Palestinian and the Egyptian. By all rights, the Israeli national anthem should have been played as well, as the agreement...

A video of a high-speed car chase has circulated on Egyptian social media since Monday. The video shows Egyptian woman, Yara Alaa Al-Din, following the car of some kidnappers, who had taken a young Syrian man in Cairo. Al-Din was driving her family back to their home, in the Cairo suburb of...

The new Israeli curriculum on Jewish communities in the Muslim world is welcome, but it highlights only the persecution. And in the case of Egypt, it’s not even clear a full-fledged expulsion happened By Eyal Sagui Bizawe Sep 10, 2017 I was recently pleased to learn that the Education Ministry...

DUBAI: Arab cities are the safest places to live in the Asia, Africa, and the world, according to the website Numbeo, which analyzed data on crime and safety statistics and people’s perceptions. The list, which is based on the latest information, provides two sets of numbers for the 334 cities...

When ICE Came for the Chaldeans Michigan’s Chaldean Christians escaped persecution in Iraq and helped Donald Trump win the presidency. Now, they’re at risk of deportation. On the afternoon of Sunday, June 11, a 29-year-old finance lawyer named Wisam Naoum stopped at a gas station to stock up...

The country's port of Tripoli has a competitive business edge over its regional neighbors Urban planner Christoph Wessling points out locations on a map showing Syria's town of Aleppo. Lebanon readies itself for business once reconstruction begins in Syria. Tobias Schwartz / AFP The port of...

3,700-year-old Babylonian tablet rewrites the history of maths - and shows the Greeks did not develop trigonometry The tablet is broken and probably had more rows, experts believe CREDIT: UNSW A 3,700-year-old clay tablet has proven that the Babylonians developed trigonometry 1,500 years...

Map of Egypt, showing the archaeological site of Abusir-el Meleq (orange X), and the location of the modern Egyptian samples used in the study (orange circles). Credit: Graphic: Annette Guenzel. Credit: Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1038/NCOMMS15694 The first genome data from ancient Egyptian...

DOHA: Qatar does not support the Muslim Brotherhood and sees no place for Bashar Assad in the future of Syria, the Gulf nation’s top diplomat told Arab News in an exclusive interview. Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani also said negotiations between the Gulf states and...

The number of Egyptians worldwide now stands at 101 million, including 8 million living abroad File Photo: People shop at Al Ataba, a popular market in downtown Cairo, Egypt March 9, 2017. (Photo: Reuters) Egypt’s population officially reached 93 million on Monday evening, according to a...

(TASS) Russia’s government will make a decision to resume air service with Egypt only after experts confirm that the country’s airports have reached an appropriate security level, Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich told TASS. “This is a question for our experts. If our aviation security...

An Egyptian worker carries out restoration work at Moses Maimonides Temple, the first Jewish temple to be built in Egypt during the 19th century, Cairo, Aug. 20, 2009. (photo by REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh) CAIRO — Saeed Helmy, head of the Islamic, Coptic and Jewish Monuments Department at the...

The Saudi-Egyptian Business Council plans to increase investments by both the Saudi government and private sectors in Egypt to reach $51 billion in the agricultural, industrial, tourism, energy and real estate sectors, as well as the Suez Canal Development Project. Investment Minister Sahar...

Former presidential candidate and leftist Hamdeen Sabahi is pictured during a protest against restrictions on the press, Cairo, Egypt, May 4, 2016. (photo by REUTERS/Staff) CAIRO — Hamdeen Sabahi, a former presidential candidate, has called on political and partisan forces to establish what he...

The Egyptian Central Bank is seen in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, May 20, 2005. Photographer: Eduardo Rossi/Bloomberg Newsnk of Egy The financial crisis in Egypt is over, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2017 has significantly jumped compared to 2016 and the prices will fall in 2018, governor of the...

Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities asked the Ministry of Finance to allocate EGP 10m in wages and salaries for the Grand Egyptian Museum’s employees in the state budget of fiscal year (FY) 2017/2018, according to an official at the Ministry of Antiquities. The official said that the government has...

Egypt hosts as many as 500,000 Syrian refugees. 2017-05-18 13:32 The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) recently released a report, titled "Jobs Make The Difference," that details the economic opportunities for Syrian refugees as well as the economic impact that they have had on their...

It looks apparent that the Islamic Military Alliance to Fight Terrorism (IMAFT) will work closely with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in the Middle East and can be considered as an informal extension of NATO comprising of Muslim States. Branded as “Muslim NATO” by media, IMAFT...