This week’s episode of the Egyptian Streets Podcast features Deena Mohamed, one of Egypt’s few published graphic novelists. Her book trilogy Shubeik Lubeik tackles Egyptian society in a magical way, to say the least. Deena joins host N...

If you’ve been around social media or the internet for the past few days since Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration, you would have come across the widely popular meme that is now taking the internet by storm: Bernie Sanders. Senator Ber...

Egypt’s Public Prosecution has issued a decision to release Ahmed Ganzoury. The decision was announced earlier today on the government agency’s official Facebook page. Ganzoury, a renowned Egyptian party organizer and entrepreneur was arr...

Is art political? It is, perhaps, the most vulnerable medium to express our internal and external turmoil and triumphs. In our Egyptian context, it has been used to bridge cultural identities through music, convey our unique upbringing through fashio...

Construction of the Cairo Eye (عين القاهرة) is officially set to kick off, with Egypt’s Minister of Tourism and Antiquities laying a foundation stone at an official ceremony on Thursday. The Cairo Eye will be located along the Nile Ri...

In the final scene of the film ‘This is My Night’, Azza, a mother, played by Nahed Elsebaeiy, sits alone with her son with down syndrome, Amr, in an empty street, watching a circus musical pass them, laughing and sharing jokes together. In just o...

Cairo is a city full of art, architecture, design, and culture. Often people forget that this age-old city is more than its traffic and its summer heat. From Islamic architecture to Coptic architecture, to Arabic calligraphy, the Arabic letter, the s...

Egypt’s government announced on Wednesday that it had approved legal amendments toughening the penalties for female genital mutilation. The new amendment to Article 242 increased both the minimum and maximum punishment for female genital mutila...

British supermodel Naomi Campbell is currently visiting Egypt during the winter, becoming the first to see the first archaeological discovery in 2021. In an Instagram post, the supermodel stated that she is traveling to North Africa after leaving Ken...

Joseph R. Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States today, 20 January 2021 and Kamala D. Harris was sworn as Vice President. This inauguration took place against the backdrop of a tense political and social climate in America with...