Category: News

Luxor film festival of African liberation, leaders’ families invited

The Luxor Festival for the African Cinema announced on Tuesday the launching of a new section for movies carrying the theme of liberation movements in Africa. The festival will feature films produced over the past 30 years, such as Nasser 5, a…

UNESCO welcomes Egypt’s suggestion to build museum science center in Cairo

UNESCO has welcomed Egypt’s suggestion to build a museum science center in Cairo under its auspices. Minister of State for Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim said Thursday that the during their general meeting in Paris UNESCO, member states aske…

Omar Samra only Egyptian and Arab to qualify for space travel

Omar Samra has marked a new international achievement and earned a ticket in the last stage of AXE ApolloSpace Competition in Orlando in the USA. Samra is the only Egyptian and Arab to secure a place to travel to space on a flight with internat…

Culture Ministry celebrates Arabic language day

The Egyptian Ministry of Culture will celebrate United Nations Arabic Language Day on 18 December. The Ministry made a comprehensive and diverse plan to commemorate the occasion, including many seminars, lectures, meetings, poetry reci…

Great value diving and new dive centre for 2014 at Emperor Divers

Warm Red Sea waters and guaranteed sunshine along with fabulous value diving offers from Emperor Divers makes 2014 THE year to dive, dive, dive! Good-value promotions on day diving, packages and liveaboards range from 5 January to 31 March w…

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal’s message from sharm : Sharm is Safe

Prince Alwaleed Satisfied With Egypt’s Return to Stability His Royal Highness Visits Egypt in a Private Vacation HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, Chairman of Kingdom Holding Company (KHC) and Chairman of Alwaleed Bin Ta…

Government to encourage local ownership of Sinai lands

The Egyptian government will not allow lands in the Sinai specifically allocated to locals to be sold or traded to other parties, the Minister of Agriculture announced Friday, in an effort to encourage local development and ownership in the…

Egypt’s Sharm El-Sheikh national museum begins 2nd stage of construction

Museum, which will be home to some 7,000 artefacts from prehistoric to modern times, enters second phase of construction, which will include completion of the museum’s interior and exhibition facilities Within the framework of a plan by Eg…

Researchers find cancer in Ancient Egyptian mummy

A professor from American University in Cairo says discovery of prostate cancer in a 2,200-year-old mummy indicates the disease was caused by genetics, not environment. The genetics-environment question is key to understanding cancer.…