Work has started on a $1 billion high-rise hotel and residential complex in downtown Cairo, the “Daily News Egypt” reports. The project, located on the Corniche El Nil on the east bank of the river Nile, will feature a branch of...

Egypt is to host the FIFA U-20 world cup, or the biennial world championship of association football for male players aged under 20, in 2009. The provisional dates for the tournament are 10-13 July. Nigeria will be hosting the FIFA U-17s...

The new Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) has signed an agreement with Italian media group Adnkronos to create an on-site television production centre, Adnkronos International reports. Funded in part by the Italian government, the multi–media facility will allow the library to make its...

Egypt is to begin issuing new car number plates as of 1 August, the weekly newspaper “Al-Ahram” reports. The new plates are needed to meet the growing demand for licensed vehicles in Egypt as well as to overcome anomalies in the...

Students at Cairo University now have the run of modern new library facilities following the completion of the first phase of the New Central Library (NCL), the newspaper “Al-Ahram Weekly” reports. The new structure includes a display of modern art, an...

Egypt has started replacing the existing hand-written passports with new electronic ones to comply with standards set by the international civil aviation authority. The new documents have a bar code and a microchip storing biometric data such as fingerprints and an iris...

The new campus of the American University in Cairo (AUC) in the New Cairo suburb of the Egyptian capital is due to open in September 2008. Designed by US architects Sasaki and Associates in conjunction with the Egyptian firm Abdel-Halim Community Development Collaborative,...