There are around 127,000 Syrian refugees registered with UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) and more than 50,000 African and Iraqi refugees in Egypt, says UNHCR Senior External Relations and Communications Officer Ragnhild Ek. Most of Syrian refugees are concentrated in Greater Ca...

n an unfinished building on the outskirts of Cairo that echoes with the clatter of construction, a Syrian instructor walks a class of young refugees through a poetry lesson in the dialect of their war-torn country, hoping to instill knowledge and a sense of community far from home. "When a Syrian...

Their arrest by Egypt's coastguard and 12 days in detention under the searing heat have not sapped the determination of young Syrian Suad and her brother: They will get to Europe, whatever the risk. "When the coastguards arrested us they opened fire. An Egyptian man was wounded," says 18-year-old S...

Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. As a result of the ongoing civil war in Syria, 300,000 Syrians now live in scattered urban locations across Egypt, facing cramped living conditions and poor access to primary health facilities. Omar...

The ongoing war in Syria has caused the worst refugee crisis since World War II, and neighboring countries have been struggling to deal with the fall-out for years. The official number of Syrian refugees currently residing in Egypt according to the UN is 127.681, but as many go unregistered, the rea...

It has been almost five years since the Syrian revolution broke out on March 18, 2011. As the conflict between the various factions of the Syrian opposition and the regime of President Bashar al-Assad persists, over 4 million Syrians have fled to regional countries, including Egypt, in hopes of find...

Drinking Turkish coffee in his well-appointed home in the upscale residential development of Al Rehab City here, 15 miles from Cairo’s center, Abdel Hady Fahmy thinks back to three years ago, when he decided to leave Syria for Egypt. With his wife, Faten, and daughter Mariah, 23, beside him, he reca...

"نسعى إلى نشر فكرة العمل التطوعي، ونعمل لتكوين مؤسسة قادرة على مساعدة أكبر عدد ممكن من الطلاب الوافدين في كافة احتياجاتهم في مصر ورفع مستوى الوعي لديهم لبناء جيل شباب ذي خبرات عالية وقادرة على تخطي المصاعب". تلك هى رسالة مؤسسة "خطوة" التى بدأت في مصر، بعد توافد الآلاف من السوريين إليها خوفاً من ا...

أصبح السوريون الآن متواجدين في كل مكان داخل مصر، فتحولوا لجزء لا يتجزأ من المجتمع المصري، يرحب بهم المصريين ويتعاملون معا كالأهل المتعايشين في وطن واحد، إلا أن الصعوبات التي يواجهونها مثل عدم اعتبارهم لاجئين حتى الآن، والنظر إليهم كطالبي لجوء، وعدم حصولهم على فرص عمل، وغيرها، يجبرهم على الرحيل وتركه...

نصف مليون سوري يعيشون في مصر حسب العديد من الإحصائيات.. ولكنهم لا يعيشون مثل أي لاجئين في أي دولة أخرى.. فقد استطاع الكثير منهم افتتاح مشروعاتهم والقيام باستثمارات لدرجة جعلتنا نجد في كل شارع محلا سوريا.. فكيف استطاع هؤلاء القيام بذلك؟ .. ومن يسهل لهم الأمور في مصر؟.. ولماذا وصل السوريون إلى الصعيد ...