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Since its inception in 1996, cairolive.com has always been the premier Egyptian news and views portal, and a true trendsetter. Quietly working from the sidelines, it has attracted a larger and larger loyal readership and spawned a generation of imitators with its focus on local news, utilizing the power of the Internet to bring far-flung communities closer together.

history
In September 1996, a web-site called Exodus Egypt, catering to the large Egyptian expatriate community around the world, was born. The site's daily news updates, called Cairo Live!, compiled and written by Egyptian-American journalist Tarek Atia, soon proved to be the most popular and informative Egyptian news on the net. On July 23, 1998, Exodus Egypt became cairolive.com. Since then, the site has gained even wider exposure. Still a one man show, the pressures of daily life and a professional career as a journalist soon forced Tarek Atia into fewer and fewer updates. Today, with a small but dedicated team and a new look, cairolive.com is poised to become the leading Egyptian news portal with a global focus, committed to providing the most innovative content on Egypt and its place in the changing world.

cairolive.com today
Classic Cairo Live is the stalwart of the site. It is the easiest, fastest way to put yourself in the know regarding the Egyptian press. We choose the items that we feel provide a balanced slice of life from Egypt, and summarize them for you. An added feature of "classic" is the archived sections. Whenever you like, you can browse through news from the past, conveniently divided into a wide array of sections. Several years of pre-upgrade cairolive.com archives by date are also available. We are in the process of archiving all the older items into the previously mentioned sections for easier browsing and searching.

Classic Cairo Live also features three other amazing departments:

Dardasha presents you with a regular update of what people are talking about. It's all about the hot topic of the week, and the different points-of-view on it.

The Critic is the first and only (and sure to be imitated) weekly update on what's going on on everybodys favorite TV series, the 8 o'clock tamsiliya on channel 1. We present you with background on the series, as well as updates on what's been happening to each character.

What's in the mags takes you on a quick weekly tour of the contents of some of Egypt's most popular magazines. We also provide links to highlighted articles when the publication has a web presence.

As well as Classic Cairo Live, cairolive.com also features Ask Al-Zaieem, a unique service that allows you to get answers to any questions you may have about Egypt.

Every week, Darwich, an Egyptian-American character invented by Tarek Atia, takes you on a wild web ride.

The Pic of the Week provides you with an opportunity to get to know the work of Egypt's famous -- and not so famous -- photographers, while the Shrinking Globe web grab takes you, via insightful commentary and carefully-chosen links, on a tour of some of the most interesting transformations happening in the world today.

the team
Tarek Atia is the founder of cairolive.com. He is an Egyptian American, born on the banks of the Nile and brought up in the suburbs of Washington DC. His articles have been published in Al-Ahram Weekly, The Washington Post, Neue Zurcher Zeitung and several other prominent publications around the world.

Inas Hamam has been part of the cairolive.com team ever since its inception, editing, designing and developing web-sites. She was also the editor of the American University in Cairo's alumni magazine, AUCtoday.

cairolive.com's design and technical framework was provided by Nihal Fahim.

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