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  Another brick in the wall : The tablet system and high school students saga “Updated”

  Earlier on Monday , Egypt’s tens of Egyptian students in First Secondary stage “High school sophomores” protested against the ministry of education and its insistence on using the tablet-system in final... Posted May 22 2019, 10:43 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, citizen Journalism, Photos, Video, Geek, Alexandria, Upper Egypt, Nile Delta, Great Cairo

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  Egypt’s Ramadan 2019 : Racism and body shaming as usual in Prank show

  There is no doubt in my mind when Egyptian comedian Shaimaa Seif agreed to appear in a blackface as a Sudanese lady for a prank show in Ramadan , she did not see any problem in that and believed it would... Posted May 14 2019, 09:18 PM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Human Rights, Egypt, society, media, Women, Arab, africa, Egyptian Faces, Sudan

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  Happy belated Sham El-Nassim 2019

  This is a very belated Happy Sham El-Nassim to all dear Egyptians from Egyptian Chronicles. It is belated thanks to TEData or WE or whatever it calls itself’s bad internet connections. Here is a small... Posted Apr 30 2019, 10:04 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, Photos, Photography, Letter from the editor, Egyptian Life, Egyptian History

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  Ahmed Khaled Tawfik's death One year later : He made us read

  I can’t believe that I have not written in Egyptian Chronicles a proper obituary to my generation’s Pop Culture Godfather sci-fi and horror author Ahmed Khaled Tawfik when he passed last year on that day... Posted Apr 02 2019, 08:00 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: books, Egypt, society, media, Culture, Arab, Geek, Egyptian Faces, Arts, Arabic faces, Nile Delta, Egyptian History

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  Saving Egyptian Heritage : The old Italian Phosphate Company Colony in El-Quseir

  God knows that I still feel sad about how that small watches shop in Downtown Cairo inaugurated in 1907 demolished “wait for a video clip about it”, only the same thing is being repeated in another place... Posted Mar 31 2019, 06:02 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, media, citizen Journalism, Photos, history, Europe, Economy, Tourism, Red Sea, African Faces, Egyptian History, Obscura Egypt

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  Will Kamel Al-Wazir break the curse of Egypt’s Railways ? We will shall see

  Earlier Monday, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi announced that Lieutenant general Kamel Al-Wazir, the head of the Egyptian army’s Engineering Authority was appointed as the new transportation minister... Posted Mar 16 2019, 10:31 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: News, Egypt, society, media, politics, Follow Up, Egyptian Faces, Egyptian Army, government, Numbers, Egyptian History

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  The day after the train crash : More victims , More unofficial Mourning, More reactions

  Just an hour ago, Egypt’s prosecutor general ordered the detention of six suspects for 4 days pending investigations in the deadly train locomotive crash of Ramses Railways station on Wednesday that killed... Posted Feb 28 2019, 10:54 PM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: News, Human Rights, Egypt, society, media, politics, Video, Follow Up, health, parliament, Sudan

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  Black February : Cairo’s Ramsis Railway station crash kills at least 25 people “Graphic”

  The death toll of Cairo’s Ramsis Railway train crash earlier Wednesday reached at least 20 people while 43 others are injured, the Egyptian ministry of health announced. At least 20 bodies were removed... Posted Feb 27 2019, 01:57 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: News, Egypt, society, media, citizen Journalism, Photos, health, Great Cairo

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  Oscars 2019 : And the Oscar goes to Rami Malak and Egyptians are happy

  Move aside Mohamed Salah, you got competition now. The son of two immigrant Egyptians from Al-Minya got his first Oscar for a leading role making history indeed. Rami Malek won an Oscar for his leading... Posted Feb 24 2019, 09:51 PM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, media, history, Culture, films, Egyptian Faces, Arts, Egyptian History

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  Khaled Youssef’s affair : Women always pay the price in media

  Women always pay the price in any sex-related scandal in the world. It is a fact. Whether you are in a country classified as a first-world-country or a third-world-country. There is no difference between... Posted Feb 24 2019, 07:14 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: News, Human Rights, Egypt, society, media, Women, politics, Follow Up, parliament, Egyptian Constitution

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  Happy Valentine’s Day : From ancient Egypt with love

  Happy Valentine’s Day Here is a beautiful small statue feature an ancient Egyptian and his lady at the Egyptian Museum of Cairo. I do not remember the names of that beautiful couple but I know that they... Posted Feb 13 2019, 09:47 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, Photos, history, Photography, Letter from the editor, archaeology, Egyptian History

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  #Jan28 : The kids have grown up indeed and some of them know what happened

  Today is the 8th anniversary of 28 January 2011 aka the Friday of Fury, the true day of the Egyptian revolution when Mubarak’s regime and the whole world knew that that the Egyptian people had enough and... Posted Jan 31 2019, 04:48 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Human Rights, Egypt, society, media, politics, Democracy, Europe, Egyptian Faces, #Jan25

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  Merry Christmas From Egyptian Chronicles

  Merry Christmas from Egyptian Chronicles to all readers celebrating Christmas tonight in Egypt and around the globe. Korba street's Christmas tree in Heliopolis " Heliopolis Heritage Initiative... Posted Dec 24 2018, 05:54 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, Photos, Religion, Letter from the editor, Great Cairo

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  Rania Youssef and her dress : Because media's priorities are lost in Egypt

  In the past 72 hours, Egyptian actress Rania Youssef made headlines nationally and internationally thanks for the media priorities in Egypt. As you may have heard she is going to stand a trial next 12... Posted Dec 01 2018, 08:30 PM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: News, Egypt, society, media, Women, Photos, Culture, politics, africa, Economy, films, Egyptian Faces, Arts, National Security, Numbers

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  Seen in Alexandria : King Farouk’s true chess set and its missing chess board

  I have to publish this post because I do not like misinformation. For the three years, a certain photo went viral through Pro-Royal and Pro-Nostalgic Egyptian Facebook pages as the photo of late King Farouk... Posted Nov 28 2018, 05:13 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, citizen Journalism, Photos, Photography, Iran, Egyptian X-files, Egyptian Royalty, Egyptian History

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  Seen in Cairo : Al-Sayeda Zeinab Mosque on Moulid eve

  Here are couple of photos of the Great Al-Sayeda Zeinab Mosque on the Mawlid Nabawy or Moulid eve “as we say it in our Egyptian Arabic accent”. I wanted to snap photos on Tuesday for Al-Sayeda Zeinab’s... Posted Nov 23 2018, 04:02 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, Women, citizen Journalism, Islam, Religion, architecture, Photography, Egyptian Life, Egyptian History

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  Happy Mawlid Nabawy 2018 From Cairo

  Happy Mawlid Nabawy from Egypt to the Whole Muslim world. Tonight, a billion and a half Muslim celebrate the anniversary of Prophet Mohamed “PBUH” ‘s birthday according to the Hijri Date “Rabi’ I 12, 1440... Posted Nov 19 2018, 08:46 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, citizen Journalism, Photos, Islam, Religion, Photography, Egyptian Life

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  Media Empires of Egypt : Ghada Abdel Razek Vs. Egyptian Media

  Earlier Saturday, I found people sharing a screenshot of a famous Egyptian actress boldly attacking Egyptian Media Group, Egypt’s biggest empire on social media asking whether the army or the intelligence... Posted Nov 19 2018, 08:04 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, media, Culture, politics, Economy, Sports, Egyptian Faces, National Security, Egyptian Army

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  Happy Halloween from Cairo’s Khan El-Khalili

  Happy Halloween from Cairo’s Khan El-Khalili. Those creepy Egyptian puppets I found in Khan El-Khalili market are found all year but they always remind me of Halloween with their dark circle eyes around... Posted Oct 31 2018, 06:02 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, citizen Journalism, Photos, Photography, Great Cairo

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  And the boy became a Mathematician : Meet Dr. Omar Mohsen

  This is one of the true happy news that made me proud as well optimistic about the future. In April 2011, I wrote about this 15-years-old mathematics genius who was doing his master’s degree in the American... Posted Oct 07 2018, 09:39 PM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, Europe, Geek, Egyptian Faces, Egyptian Life

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  World Suicide Prevention Day : Something to worry about in Egypt

  The tenth of September has become a World day to raise awareness worldwide against suicide since 2003. It is the World Suicide Prevention Day “WSPD” and I think this year we feel its importance in Egypt... Posted Sep 12 2018, 07:59 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, media, Economy, health, Yemen, war, Egyptian Life, Sudan, government, Numbers

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  Once again : Sectarian mob attack in Al-Minya

  Once again sectarian mob attacks erupt in Al-Minya and once again we will find the same old headlines on how the authorities save the day using the old techniques used before despite those techniques prove... Posted Sep 04 2018, 09:27 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: News, Human Rights, Egypt, society, politics, Religion, National Security, Minorities, Upper Egypt

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  The On The Run guy Or How the Egyptian society supports rich sexual harassers

  Sorry for the shocking the headline but honestly I can’t think about anything better than this headline. On the first day of Eid Al-Adha, the hashtag “#I_support_Menna_Gobran ” led the top Twitter trends... Posted Aug 23 2018, 12:52 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Human Rights, Egypt, society, media, Women, citizen Journalism, Video, Corruption, Egyptian Life, Canal Cities

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  Filmed in Cairo : The return of CEO

  A post shared by Zeinobia (@zeinobia) on Aug 13, 2018 at 4:14am PDT Akhbar Al Youm press corporation is celebrating the return of its CEO and Journalist Yasser Rizk from abroad after having some surgery... Posted Aug 12 2018, 09:53 PM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, media, citizen Journalism, history, Video, Egyptian Faces, Egyptian Life, Spy, Presidency, Egyptian History, Great Cairo

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  International Cat Day : Meet an Egyptian Museum Cat

  That cat is among the famous cats of the Egyptian Museum of Cairo One more photo to celebrate the International Cat day and a throwback to my visits to the Egyptian Museum of Cairo. This was one of its... Posted Aug 08 2018, 09:27 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, citizen Journalism, history, Photography, Tourism, Egyptian Life, Egyptian History, Great Cairo

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  The Road to Egypt World Cup 2030 : 30 Football fan allowed in Egyptian Premier league's matches

  Egypt’s Premier League will kick-start within hours in Alexandria with a football match between Ittihad Alexandria and El Mokawloon at Alexandria Stadium. Both teams are allowed to get 15 football fans... Posted Jul 30 2018, 10:26 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Human Rights, Egypt, society, politics, Sports, Egyptian Life, National Security

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  Blood Lunar Eclipse 2018 : From Cairo with love

  It is said to be the longest lunar eclipse our part of the world would see in the 21st century and so I could not ignore it. I had waited for it since I read the news earlier July. When the eclipse started... Posted Jul 27 2018, 09:40 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, citizen Journalism, Photos, Islam, international, Religion, nature, Geek, Photography, environment, Photo Of The Week

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  Seen in Cairo : The Last Days of S. Hinhayat in Maspero Triangle

  The X Mark like a bad omen on the shop Seen in Cairo what it could be the last days of 111-years S. Hinhayat shop, Egypt’s oldest surviving watches and clock shop “most probably in the MiddleEast”. I have... Posted Jul 22 2018, 05:46 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, history, Follow Up, architecture, Photography, Egyptian Life, Egyptian History, Great Cairo

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  The 57357 Hospital Controversy’s latest update : A Media gag order

  On Wednesday, Egypt’s Supreme Council for Media Regulation “SCM” issued a media gag order against all what is published or broadcasted about the 57357 Children Cancer Hospital and its current controversy... Posted Jul 04 2018, 10:06 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, media, Economy, health, Corruption, Egyptian Life

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  Seen in Cairo : Watching Egypt Vs. Saudi Arabia game in World Cup 2018

  Watching the game between Egypt and KSA in the World Cup despite both teams are out of the 16th round. Cafes in Cairo are full of customers watching the match. Read More... Posted Jun 25 2018, 01:07 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, Photos, Photography, Sports, Gulf, Great Cairo, Eastern Bloc, Egyptian society

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  Happy Eid Fitar and Good luck to Egypt and Morocco

  Happy Eid Fitar from Egyptian Chronicles to Muslims celebrating the feast today. May Allah accept your fasting in the holy month of Ramadan. I know there are many things that happened this week in Egypt... Posted Jun 14 2018, 01:44 PM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, Islam, Religion, Sports, Letter from the editor, maghreb, Eastern Bloc

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  RIP Anthony Bourdain : A look back to his visits to Egypt and to Palestine

  The world was shocked earlier Friday to know that beloved and renowned chef Anthony Bourdain passed away. According to news reports, the award-winning chef and TV personality died of apparent suicide in... Posted Jun 10 2018, 01:42 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: News, Human Rights, Egypt, Palestine, society, media, Culture, Video, America, Tourism, Egyptian History, Egyptian Cuisine

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  Kodak Agfa Presents : An Early Full Moon !?

  I grabbed my camera Monday night after reading online that Planet Jupiter is making an appearance besides the moon and we could see it by the naked eye, it was an invitation for photography. Amazingly... Posted May 28 2018, 08:39 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, Photos, Islam, nature, Geek, Photography

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  Our King is injured : A sad night in Egypt

  Saturday night millions of people in Egypt saw their hope for a short glimpse of happiness crashed when a young Egyptian footballer fell in a Kiev Stadium. That phrase spread on Egyptian social media to... Posted May 26 2018, 10:41 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: News, Egypt, society, Europe, Sports, Gulf

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  From Egyptian Chronicles : Ramadan Kareem 1439

  From Egyptian Chronicles to all the Muslims around the globe, Happy Ramadan or as we say in Egypt “Ramadan Kareem”. Ramadan of Hijri year 1439 will officially commence in Egypt on Thursday. According to... Posted May 15 2018, 09:17 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: books, Egypt, society, Islam, Culture, Religion, Letter from the editor, Arts, Egyptian Life

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  How Egypt’s Media Council did not spare the Spring’s song from its censorship

  For the first time since starting to blog here, I did not publish the official anthem of Spring or Sham Nassim in Egypt this year. Busy between work and home, I tried at the same time to take some rest... Posted Apr 20 2018, 09:23 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, Music, society, media, Culture, politics, Video, MB, Arts, Egyptian Life

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  Kodak Agfa Presents : Spring Flowers Fair 2018 “Elections , Selfies and flowers”

  And I am avoiding all that useless debate about Syria currently because I am too angry of that hypocrisy in this world so I will stick to photography and spring. It is that time of the year where Kodak... Posted Apr 18 2018, 09:37 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, citizen Journalism, Photos, politics, nature, Photography, Elections, environment, Egyptian Life, Presidency

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  Seen in Cairo : Empty food supplies boxes

  Empty boxes Seen in Cairo: Empty boxes of food supplies given from the Egyptian armed forces to those in need in different areas and in different governorates. via Instagram http://ift.tt/2niAAzw Read... Posted Jan 26 2018, 02:23 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, citizen Journalism, Photos, Photography, Egyptian Army, Great Cairo

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  Merry Christmas from Egyptian Chronicles

  Merry Christmas from Egyptian Chronicles to all the people celebrating it all over the world Here is a nice Christmas Tree in Cairo’s Fifth Settlement made by ABn’G art gallery for some real estate development... Posted Dec 24 2017, 08:48 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, citizen Journalism, Photos, Culture, Religion, Photography, Arts, Great Cairo

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  Al-Rawda Mosque Carnage : Two weeks later

  Last Friday, head of Al-Azhar Sheikh Mohamed El-Tayeb led Friday prayers at North Sinai’s El-Rawda Mosque just one week after the horrifying massacre it witnessed where not less than 311 people were killed... Posted Dec 09 2017, 06:29 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Human Rights, Egypt, society, Photos, politics, Video, Follow Up, Terrorism, Egyptian Life, Egyptian Army, Sinai, Numbers

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  Egypt’s Black Friday : At least 305 humans were killed in North Sinai Mosque Massacre

  All the flags of Egypt lowered on Saturday across the country in national mourning according to a presidential decree issued on Friday following the country’s deadliest attack since the 1970s in North... Posted Nov 25 2017, 08:10 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, politics, Follow Up, Terrorism, Egyptian Life, Egyptian Army, Sinai, Numbers

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  #WeNeedToTalk about Nubian Egyptians for real !!

  Do you remember the Nubian Egyptian protesters who were arrested while protesting peaceful using the Duf in Aswan early September? There were 25 protesters detained pending investigation on a number of... Posted Nov 08 2017, 09:43 PM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Human Rights, Egypt, society, politics, Democracy, National Security, Aswan, Nubia

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  Seen in Cairo : The Yacoubian box

  Seen in Cairo: a very old card box keeping very beautiful and old glassware owned by my late grandma in our attic aka (sandara). The box had the sticker of “N.Yacoubian” which according to my knowledge... Posted Oct 17 2017, 06:11 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: books, Egypt, society, citizen Journalism, Photos, Culture, Photography, Arts, Egyptian Life, Minorities, Egyptian History, Great Cairo

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  And Egypt is heading to World Cup Russia 2018

  Okay this is from the historical important moments that I love to post in my blog Egypt has finally qualified for the World Cup Russia 2018 Yes, I need to say this again loud and clear that Egypt has been... Posted Oct 10 2017, 06:55 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, media, citizen Journalism, Photos, Arab, politics, Sports, Egyptian Faces, Egyptian Life, National Security, Eastern Bloc

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  Business tycoon , publisher and dead people : Abu Trika and the 1512 other names in that terrorists list

  Last week the Egyptian people were in shock after knowing that their beloved footballer Mohamed Abou Trika was added to the terrorists list. The news is still making people angry and the popular retired... Posted Jan 25 2017, 07:17 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Human Rights, Egypt, society, media, politics, Economy, Terrorism, MB, Egyptian Faces, Laws, trials

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  Seen in Alexandria : A view from the Greek Club

  Source: Instagram Seen in Alexandria: A view showing boats and yachts from the famous Greek club's restaurant in one fine afternoon in May 2016 . The Greek Club's restaurant is currently one of... Posted Jan 20 2017, 10:38 PM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, citizen Journalism, Photos, Tourism, Alexandria, Egyptian History

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  Abou Trika , the hearts terrorist and the curse of stupidity in Egypt

  Some people are saying what happened late Tuesday night was a pathetic attempt from the Egyptian government to divert the attention from Tiran and Sanafir political crisis but it seems that attempt failed... Posted Jan 18 2017, 08:33 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, media, politics, Terrorism, Sports, MB, Egyptian Faces

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  After Egyptian Jews and Egyptian Italians , it is time for Egyptian Armenians

  You saw the Jews of Egypt and the Italians of Egypt , now it is time for Armenians of Egypt. Here is the new "We are Egyptian Armenians" Documentary featuring the long history of the Armenian... Posted Jan 08 2017, 05:52 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, media, Culture, films, Egyptian Faces, Arts, Egyptian Life, Minorities, Egyptian History

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  And the "Signal" still comes and goes in Egypt

  It seems that the Egyptian government has not lost hope in blocking "Signal" private messaging app in Egypt. "Signal" app was not working again last week. I have tested it myself on... Posted Jan 07 2017, 05:19 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, citizen Journalism, politics, Follow Up, Geek

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  Shawkan Photo awards 2016 : Egypt's best photos of the year

  For the second year in a row, a group of prominent of Egyptian photographers held the annual competition to name and choose Egypt's best photos in 2016. The competition which was named after detained... Posted Jan 01 2017, 07:57 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Human Rights, Egypt, society, media, citizen Journalism, Photos, Terrorism, MB, Egyptian Life, Egyptian Army, trials

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  Seen in Alexandria : Spring time a la corniche

  Alexandria's corniche in Bahary Just as thunderstorms and rain hit Alexandria right now, I remember how beautiful and calm it was in May. Here is a quick shot I took while I was in the car to the famous... Posted Dec 25 2016, 07:50 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, citizen Journalism, Photos, Travel, Tourism, Egyptian Life, Alexandria

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  Blocking and unblocking Signal in Egypt

  On Monday, Open Whisper System confirmed that its private messaging app "Signal" has been censored in Egypt after numerous reports over the weekend. Over this weekend users of Signal in Egypt... Posted Dec 20 2016, 08:21 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Human Rights, Egypt, society, citizen Journalism, Democracy, Geek

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  Egypt's Internet trolls : The Union "Ep.1"

  The international media is currently having a long serious discussion about fake news and internet trolls in the social media. Only after the US presidential elections and its results, the world decided... Posted Dec 05 2016, 08:14 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, media, citizen Journalism, politics, Geek

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  Kodak Agfa presents Alexandria in late spring

  In May , I went to Alexandria in a short a three-days visit with my family. It was a nice spring break before the start of summer as well before Ramadan. This is my second - somehow long trip to Alexandria... Posted Nov 11 2016, 09:44 PM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, citizen Journalism, Photos, Tourism, Egyptian Life, Alexandria

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  About that so-called 11/11 Revolution in Egypt on Friday

  Supposedly after Friday's prayers which are a few hours away , a so-called revolution or protests or uprising of 11/11 will erupt against the current Egyptian regime because of its so-called economic... Posted Nov 10 2016, 08:35 PM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, media, politics, Democracy, Economy, MB, Post revolution

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  And it hit the fan finally !!

  And you know "it" hit the fan finally. The Central Bank of Egypt "CBE" issued its decision early Thursday to freely float the Egyptian pound and raise the key interest rates as part... Posted Nov 03 2016, 11:53 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, Economy, Numbers

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  Fall of discontent Redux : The viral videos week

  Did you see the video of Tuk-tuk driver ? Did you notice how it pissed off all the Pro-regime mainstream media and supporters !? P.S : The Pro-regime media is still fighting the tuk-tuk driver's video... Posted Oct 19 2016, 10:42 PM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, media, citizen Journalism, Video, Economy, Egyptian Life, Egyptian Army

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  A sign that tells you a lot about Egypt's economy

  That sign was seen in the upscale Seoudi supermarket on Wednesday telling their upper-middle-class clients new rules. Seoudi market's announcement As we are keen to provide goods continuously to all... Posted Oct 09 2016, 10:44 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, media, citizen Journalism, Economy, Egyptian Life

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  Only in Egypt , the high percentage of youth is a "disaster"

  During the Scientific conference of the National council on Sunday , head of Central Agency for public Mobilization and Statistics "CAPMAS" General Abu Bakr El-Gendy raised an important question... Posted Sep 28 2016, 09:53 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, politics, Video, Egyptian Life, Numbers

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  The Rosetta boat tragedy

  Earlier Tuesday, Egypt's Petroleum Marine services managed to float the sunken migrant boat off the shores of Rosetta city . According to the people of Rosetta, the Beheira governorate and the Egyptian... Posted Sep 27 2016, 08:59 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Human Rights, Egypt, society, Photos, politics, Video, Syria, africa, Europe, Economy, Egyptian Life, Nile Delta, Egyptian Constitution

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  Unionist's contradicting statements , 5 dead men got no link to Regeni : The probe continues

  From two weeks ago , Egypt's Prosecutor General Nabil Sadek issued a statement in Rome about the latest progress in Giulio Regeni's murder investigation and cooperation with Italian Prosecutor... Posted Sep 17 2016, 12:14 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Human Rights, Egypt, society, media, politics, Follow Up, Europe

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  Watch this : Sleepless Cairo from 5 to 7

  This short documentary below is called "Cairo from 5 to 7" produced by Egypt's High Cinema institute and directed by one of the institute's students a project from 3 years ago. The short... Posted Aug 15 2016, 08:11 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, citizen Journalism, Culture, films, Arts, Great Cairo

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  And Egypt got two bronze medals in Rio 2016 in one night

  This is definitely a great day for Egypt as well the Arabs in general in Rio Olympics 2016 as Egyptian Olympians managed to score two bronze medals in Weightlifting. Our winners on Wednesday Fantastic... Posted Aug 10 2016, 12:24 PM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, Photos, Sports, Egyptian Faces, Egyptian History

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  The danger of being a regular citizen now in Egypt !!

  "He was tortured and killed like an Egyptian" Allegedly those were the words of Paola Regeni, the mother of the mother of the 28-years-old Italian political science researcher tortured and killed... Posted Jul 20 2016, 12:44 PM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Human Rights, Egypt, society, media, Women, politics, Sports, parliament, National Security

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  Kodak Agfa presents Spring Flowers Show 2016

  First of all , I apologize that I am posting this now. It is very belated post as I have should post it in April but then it was one hell of a month. On the same day I went to the fair in late March ,... Posted Jul 14 2016, 07:18 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, citizen Journalism, Photos, nature, Egyptian Life, Great Cairo

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  Seen in Cairo : Photos left to remember in Railway station

  For some unknown reason to me, people leave their photos in Cairo's Ramses railway station aka Misr station model in its famous hall. Taken on a hurry in May at Egypt's main station , I keep thinking... Posted Jul 11 2016, 08:30 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, citizen Journalism, Photos, Egyptian Life, Great Cairo

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  The North Coast whale and the fact that we have Whales in Egypt !!

  First , happy Eid Second , I will just keep it light here in the blog before returning to serious stuff. Now aside from the depressing economic as well diplomatic news , the major news catching the attention... Posted Jul 08 2016, 01:21 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, citizen Journalism, nature, environment, Egyptian Life, Matrouh

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  Seen in Cairo : More Lanterns one more time

  It is only 48 hours before the end of the Holy Month of Ramadan so it is not late to share one more photo of colorful Egyptian traditional lanterns at El-Sayida Zeinab Market. Source : Instagram Read More... Posted Jul 03 2016, 06:39 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, citizen Journalism, Photos, Great Cairo

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  When Egyptian High school students headed to Tahrir square to protest

  This photo is The Photo of last week in Egypt, it summarizes and represents the situation in the country perfectly. Running away from the security "Mohamed Meteab" This is the photo of a young... Posted Jul 02 2016, 01:21 AM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Human Rights, Egypt, society, media, citizen Journalism, Photos, politics, Democracy, Video, Egyptian Life

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  Seen in Cairo : Strike a pose with a Ramadan Lantern

  A girl takes a picture of her friend or sister with a Ramadan Lantern in Sayida Zeinab Ramadan Market in Cairo 48 hours before the start of the Islamic holy month. Only a week and Ramadan 2016 will be... Posted Jun 27 2016, 09:28 PM by Egyptian Chronicles Filed under: Egypt, society, citizen Journalism, Photos, Egyptian Life