Major General Ahmed Naguib Sharaf, head of the Port Said harbors authority, said that 479 Syrian refugees arrived in Egypt Tuesday on board the Turkish Shop Nissos Rodos. In a press release, Sharaf said that he ordered all necessary procedures on the ship and also ensured that care was provided f...

CAIRO — When Hazem learned last month that the Syrian military would draft him on New Year’s Day, he did not wait around to see whether the regime would keep its word. The 23-year-old law student from Damascus drove to the Lebanese border, bribed a soldier and hopped on one of the next planes from B...

على الرغم من أن اللاجئين السوريين فى جميع الدول العربية التى استضافتهم سواء فى تركيا أو لبنان أو الأردن شكلوا مصدرا للشكوى من زيادة أعدادهم وصعوبة توفير أماكن لهم فى المخيمات التى شيدتها الدول لهم، فإن ذلك لم يظهر على مصر حتى الآن، بل على العكس: فإن هناك الكثير من المناطق التى شهدت انتعاشاً اقتصاديا...

يجلس عبدالستار بازرباشى اللاجئ السورى الذى وفد إلى مصر قبل ثلاثة أشهر فقط إلى جوار عزت قاسم ــ مصرى الجنسية ــ صاحب المتجر المجاور فى مساكن عثمان، على أطراف مدينة 6 أكتوبر، يروى كل منهما عن المعاناة التى يتعرض لها الساكن فى هذه المنطقة قرب طريق الواحات، مع غياب الخدمات وانقطاع وسائل المواصلات، فمساك...

On Wednesday, the United Nations for High Commissioner Refugees (UNHCR) will throw a fundraising concert to support Syrian refugees in Egypt. The concert has been organised with support from the British embassy in Egypt and the Arab League. Mohamed Dayri, UNHCR regional representative, weighed in...

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) held a press conference on the current status of Syrian refugees in Egypt at its Cairo headquarters. Director of International Protection Volker Türk addressed the situation of Syrian refugees in Egypt, noting that Egypt itself is going through ...

To celebrate the release of a new photo exhibit that offers a peek into the lives of refugees living in Egypt, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies organised an event this week to discuss the challenges facing those who claim ...

On the occasion of World Refugee Day, the photo exhibition “Refugee Voices in Egypt 2014: Exile, Refuge and Resilience”, opened on 25 June-8 July at the Legacy Gallery, at the AUC Tahrir campus. The exhibition, organised by the Center for Migration and Refugee Studies (CMRS) at the American Univ...

In an attempt to offer a visual representation to the experiences that refugees in Egypt go through, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) organised a photography exhibition, entitled “Refugee Voices in Egypt: Refuge, Resilience and Exile”. The exhibition, which is hosted by El-S...

More than 4 million Syrians have fled to neighboring countries. But as relief organizations cut back on aid, many are moving on. A lucky few are resettled, while others take a more dangerous route. Naomi Conrad reports. Ägypten Kairo syrische Flüchtlinge Behind the luxury gated villas and oversiz...