A controversial new Egyptian capital city is being built 30 miles east of Cairo at the expense of $45bn. "Sprawled" across a patch of desert four times the size of Washington, DC, the "showy new ...

Egypt has struggled to manage its high birth rate for decades. To ease overcrowding, President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi is building a series of ambitious new cities. But even his new capital remains ...

SOON after the occupation of Egypt by a British military force in 1882, the late Prof. Huxley, then president of the Royal Society, directed attention to the valuable opportunity that was afforded ...