Egyptian activist Sanaa Seif was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Wednesday by a Cairo criminal court after serving nine months in jail, according to her sister, activist Mona Seif. Sanaa has been charged with spreading false news via her social m...

On Sunday the 25th of November 1923, two months after the maestro’s death, The Manchester Guardian Weekly ran a profile on Sayed Darwish, “the national hero who brought Egyptian music into the twentieth century.” Like so many other stories abou...

Cairo Designathon announced earlier this month the second round of its ‘design marathon’ after a successful first rendition of the event in 2020. At a launch event on Wednesday 10 March, Cairo Designathon officially opened registration for the se...

Tucked away in one of Cairo’s old suburbs, Barsoum Palace is one of the architectural and historical gems of modern Cairo. But as plans were made to build the mighty Ferdous Axis, serving as a link between Eastern and Southern Cairo, the palace’s...

English actor Riz Ahmed made history on Monday after becoming the first Muslim to ever be nominated for the Oscars for Best Actor at the Academy Awards due to his acclaimed performance in Amazon’s “Sound of Metal.” The film is also up for a to...

The Egyptian Metro Company announced on Monday plans to install surveillance cameras inside the first and second Cairo metro lines as part of its efforts to modernize systems and fight sexual harassment, according to the official spokesperson for the...

I recall the first time I ever saw an Egyptian advertisement. It was in the early 2000s at my grandmother’s house, a place that for so many years represented for me security, joy and abundance of love. Living outside of Egypt, the only advertisemen...

The Cairo Criminal Court sentenced an Egyptian man who killed his sister earlier this year after suspecting her of “suspicious behaviour” to five years in a maximum security prison. According to state media Al-Ahram, Karim A. was found gu...

The Egyptian Public Prosecution announced on Monday afternoon that three men have been referred to criminal trial over various charges related to the death of a woman who fell to her death from her apartment’s balcony. In a statement, the Publi...

It was a Wednesday evening, a little over 10 days ago, when Sarah Everard, a 33-year-old marketing executive manager, disappeared in Clapham Common, a widely popular neighborhood park in the south of London. Since then, a police officer and a woman w...