When dreams turn to salt
A once-promising land reclamation project for new graduates is now a wasteland of lost hope. Yasmine Fathi investigates

Not just ugly
Lina Mahmoud investigates mixed opinions on the transplanted freshwater crayfish in Cairo's Nile waters

Connecting people
In an exclusive interview John Grote, director of the British Council in Egypt, talks to Fatemah Farag about shared humanity

The British Council and I
Mursi Saad El-Din remembers the British Council under Egyptian rule

Down memory lane
Below, extracts from Frances Donaldson's The British Council: The First Fifty Years (Butler and Tanner Ltd, 1984) shed light on the institute's long history in Egypt