The rise of social media in recent years has given unprecedented visibility to people from all walks of life, with a myriad topics shaping up countless conversations taking place at any given moment. In Egypt and across the MENA region, these platfor...

Mayar Sherif made history again for Egypt after becoming the first Egyptian to qualify for the main draw of the Australian Open. Sherif managed to secure a scoreline of 6-3, 2-6, 6-1, before qualifying for the final round against Aleksandra Krunić o...

The opening match of the 2021 Men’s Handball World Championship has seen the hosting team, Egypt, launch their campaign with a confident win over Chile at the Cairo International Stadium on January 13. The Egyptian team beat their South America...

Egypt’s Public Prosecution issued an order on Thursday to detain Haneen Hossam and Mawada Al Adham pending investigation into charges of human trafficking, Al Masry Al Youm reports. According to Youm7, a North Cairo court has issued a ruling to ren...

Last November, Netflix premiered its first original Egyptian production Paranormal, also known as Ma Wara’ al-Tabi’a, a six-episode series directed by Amr Salama and based on Ahmed Khaled Tawfik’s best-selling Arabic book of the...

In December of 2020, the U20 Women’s Egyptian National Football Team won a match against their Lebanese counterparts. Though at first glance this should be a piece of good news at the end of a difficult year, the torrent of sexist online commen...

The Cairo Economic Appeals Court issued a verdict earlier today acquitting Haneen Hossam of charges of violating Egyptian family values and overturning Mawada Al Adham’s prison sentence, Youm7 reports. The verdict was handed down to the two Tik...

Egypt’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement on Sunday that the meeting on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) failed to reach any conclusions due to disagreements over how to manage and resume negotiations. The ministry note...

Not just anyone can write a well structured storyline that entails complex characters, an intelligent thought-provoking plot and believable dialogue; the late Egyptian screenwriter Wahid Hamed however, manages to weave all three aspects together seam...

Anja Saleh is a German-Egyptian with many talents, she runs TAVII Studio, and she currently has a poetry book available on pre-order called “Soon, The Future of Memory”. She is also an educator, and runs a creative academy called “Datteltä...