The Cairo Criminal Court issued a verdict earlier today, Sunday the 20th, sentencing Haneen Hossam to 10 years in prison and ordered her to pay a EGP 200,000 fine. The court also sentenced Mawada Aladhm and three others to six years in prison and imp...

Just before 11:30 A.M. on a warm spring day in late March (26th), train service 89 travelling from Luxor to Alexandria came to a standstill outside the town of Tahta, in the Sohag governorate in Upper Egypt. It was an unexplained stop, but one famili...

Imagine someone walking into a music shop, catching ‘Ramadan In Space Time’ and proceeding to shazam it. For someone who does not know who Salah Ragab is, his music would probably paint a picture of an artist who is laid back, liberal, and young ...

On Thursday evening, a Cairo misdemeanour court sentenced a Cairo International Airport employee accused of taking non-consensual photos of a woman at the airport to three years in prison and fined him EGP20,000, convicting him of taking the photos, ...

If you walk down Fouad street in Alexandria, at the crossing with Sofia Zaghloul street you will see the bright movie posters adorning the walls of the famous Cinema Amir. But if you look down, you will also see the mesh steel gates habitually blocki...

Kerima Nashat handed me a heavy lamp filled with small, familiar-looking objects. “Can you guess what these are?” she asked. I was stumped. After a few wrong guesses, she smiled and finally revealed the answer: “They’re bullets from Wadi Degl...

Egypt’s Public Prosecution announced on Wednesday 16 June that it had referred a Cairo International Airport employee to criminal trial for taking photographs in way that violated a female traveler’s privacy. In its statement, the Public ...

Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Hajj and Umrah announced on Sunday 13 June, that women can now register for their annual pilgrimage without a male guardian. While announcing a registration portal, the Ministry set forth a list of requirements for el...

The Minya Criminal Court has sentenced 10 defendants to five years in prison each for their role in a wave of hate crimes committed against the Coptic Christian community in 2016 in the village of Korm in Abu Qurqas. The ruling, issued yesterday Tues...

Israel launched new airstrikes on Gaza on Wednesday 16 June, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced. In a statement released on Twitter, the IDF said the attacks were in response to incendiary balloons launched into Israel from Gaza, which Israel...