A controversial new Egyptian capital ... the poor and middle class of Egypt were paying the price in higher taxes. Speaking to The Times, he said that it is a capital "for the military and its ...

Egypt is building a new administrative capital from the ground up. But what began as a ploy to decongest Cairo’s traffic has quickly racked up criticism over a growing budget and questions about ...

One morning in Amarna, a village in Upper Egypt about 200 miles south of ... After taking office, he announced the construction of a brand-new capital in the desert east of Cairo—a $300 billion ...

as well as Egypt’s first Curio Collection and a resort under the Hilton Hotels & Resorts brand. Hilton Cairo Nile Maadi, located in the capital’s upscale Maadi district, is scheduled to open ...

But he had spent years boasting of the prosperity he would bring to Egypt — prosperity that never came, even as he inaugurated a costly new capital city complete with a gleaming presidential palace.

was launched from Egypt’s New Administrative Capital, the Sisi regime’s most symbolic project, to much fanfare. Its founding members include a diverse array of public figures, parliamentarians ...