Thousands of revellers marking New Year’s Eve in Egypt’s coastal city of Alexandria who were captured on video chanting against COVID-19 have sparked fears of a mass outbreak. Despite the Egyptian government banning New Year’s Eve c...

The Egyptian cabinet announced on 31 December the suspension of in-person classes in schools and universities across the Egypt for the remainder of the current semester starting Saturday, 2 January. It further announced the postponing of all in-perso...

  If we have to summarize the changes that happened to the Egyptian family over the past decade, the most honest thing to say is this: we don’t know everything. With thousands of articles, books and films trying to explain the reasons behi...

Earlier today, the Cairo Economic Court issued a decision sentencing Ahmed Bassam Zaki to three years in prison, local media reports. The court has also transferred the civil suit against the notorious sexual predator to the proper authorities for ad...

‘January 7th?’ One might be wondering upon reading this article’s headline. As Christmas is widely known to be celebrated on December 25th all over the world, the January 7th Christmas date might seem odd to many – especially those who ar...

In preparation for the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Egypt’s cabinet announced on Sunday a set of new measures to contain the spread of the virus. At a press conference, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said that for the past few days, E...

At this point of December, we start to reminisce about everything that happened over the past year. Since 2020 was – literally – a year like no other, there is no other better way to capture it than through the tweets of Egyptian comedian...

Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church has announced new regulations and health and safety measures to be enforced at all religious gatherings and congregations at churches across Cairo and Alexandria, local media reports. According to Al Ahram Online, the...

Picture this: A loud family gathering, a dining table full of traditional western and Egyptian Christmas dishes, a few slightly intoxicated family members trying to ‘out-loud’ each other, a few others running after the adrenaline-filled group of ...

Egypt’s Minister of Finance, Mohamed Maait, announced on Thursday that the Ministry officially signed contracts to receive 20 million doses of the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and 30 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, Ahram Online report...