New centre in 6 October City is established to provide activities, counselling for Syrian refugees. A community centre for Syrians living in 6 October City on the outskirts of Cairo will be officially launched on Wednesday by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, in collaboration wit...

More than six months have passed since Khalil Othman, 37, began looking for a job in Cairo to cover his family's expenses. Othman's family fled to Egypt from Syria after their house in Homs collapsed due to constant Syrian army shelling of the city. Khalil, a secondary school teacher in Syria...

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...

Ils sont près de 300 000 à s’être repliés sur l’Egypte pour fuir des combats traumatisants. Leur adaptation à cette nouvelle vie passe par le Haut Commissariat des Nations-Unies pour les réfugiés où d’importants soutiens, notamment psychologiques, leur sont apportés. Elle n’a que cinq ans, et po...

On the 21th of January, 620 Syrian refugees arrived in Port Said after a long boat trip of about 30 hours. Those new comers are part of the 300 000 Syrian refugees in Egypt that escape the shelling and the bad condition of life during the war. In Port Said and Port Fuad, the Syrians get help from a ...

CAIRO – Last year, Omar Haidar arrived in Egypt. As bombs rattled entire neighborhoods, the 26-year old hotel manager fled his family’s village in the hard-hit suburbs of Damascus. After participating in protests, Haidar was arrested by Syrian military security in August 2011. After his release, he...

At first glance, Al-Shami Shawerma could be just another Egyptianized Syrian sandwich shop catering to the lunch rush around Hosary Square in the 6th of October settlement in Giza. But the Syrian dialect of this new restaurant’s owner, Nader Abu Waseem, tells a different story. Three months ago, ...

Rula Deeb, 26, was born in Damascus and calls Syria her home. But after months of government bombings, indiscriminate violence and rising scarcity of basic goods, Deeb, whose grandparents fled Gaza for Syria in 1948, felt she could no longer safely stay. As a Syrian with Palestinian refugee docum...

Official Justice Ministry statistics issued Tuesday revealed that 113 Egyptians married Syrian women in 2012, and 57 in the first quarter of 2013, totaling 170 marriages. “Procedures require that the Syrian Embassy approves the marriage, and that the wife has residence in Egypt,” said ministry sp...