President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Tuesday, 20 October, urged businessman Hisham Talaat Moustafa to help provide between 100,000 and 200,000 rental apartments, saying developers undertaking projects of such scale should also contribute to society. The...

Egyptians living overseas who have long queued at embassies to renew documents now can use an smartphone application to initiate consular transactions and track their progress. Egypt’s Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday, 21 October, that it had beg...

  Egypt has reached an agreement worth EGP 11 trillion (USD 202 billion) with the Talaat Moustafa Group to develop four major mixed-use projects.  The deal was announced on the sidelines of the “Urban Development” session on the second day ...

The pointed arches that rise over Notre-Dame Cathedral in  France and Canterbury Cathedral in England may owe part of their lineage to a ninth-century mosque beside the Nile, according to Diana Darke, an Oxford-educated Arabist. Egyptian and Mamluk ...

  In a recorded message at the Egypt Forum 2026 on Monday, 19 October, in the presence of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, the Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef warned that online arguments are damaging relationships between Arab communities.  Th...

Egypt’s education minister declared on Tuesday, 20 October, that the debate is over regarding whether international schools must teach Arabic, history and religion, and whether to count the grades toward students’ final scores. “There is no stu...

Egypt will turn clocks back by one hour at midnight on Thursday, 29 October, as daylight saving time comes to an end and the country returns to winter time on Friday, 30 October. The change will move clocks from 12:00 AM back to 11:00 PM on Thursday,...

  Foreign investment in Egypt’s real estate sector rose 47.4 percent year on year to USD 2.8 billion (EGP 150 billion) in the fiscal year ended June 2026, up from USD 1.9 billion (EGP 102 billion) in the previous fiscal year. The increase ...

Egyptian farmed fish and crustaceans will be eligible for export to all 27 European Union (EU) member states starting 4 November, following Brussels approval of the country’s aquaculture monitoring plan, opening a lucrative market to Africa’s lar...