Author: Athanasios Koutoupas
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Alexandria: locals adapt to floods as coastal waters inch closer
Gaber has managed the Latino cafe in Alexandria for six years, during which time the business has had to adapt to increasingly dramatic winter storms. With the storms come the floods, crashing waves engulfing large chunks of the many cafes nestled on the coastline. “There was another wall here before the flooding, but the steel…
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Hundreds of coffins to be restored in Egyptian conservation project
The conservation effort, funded by a US grant, will restore more than 600 wooden coffins that date to various eras of ancient Egypt and which are currently stored at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. “There has been no other project like this worldwide, with this number of coffins being documented or restored,” said head of…
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Moody’s expects economic growth for Egypt by 4% in 2017
Moody’s attributes this potential increase to private consumption and foreign investments which will push forward economic development in Egypt, in a report published on Sunday. The report, which forecasts the economic progress for the Levant and North African countries, also said that the weak government performance, internal challenges, and geopolitics remain a threat to its dominant…
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Belarus to assemble tractors in Egypt’s Alexandria
(eng.belta.by)