Cartona, a business-to-business platform leading efforts to digitize Egypt’s trade market, announced on Tuesday that it had successfully raised $USD 4.5 million in a Pre-Series A fund-raise. The fund-raise was led by Global Ventures, a Dubai-ba...

Everyday life in Cairo is full of surprises that make you come alive, but the city’s energy can also feel draining and inescapable. The Japanese healing practice Reiki (“rei” meaning universal, and “ki” meaning life energy) is based on the ...

Rice, pasta, lentils, and chickpeas – koshari is one of the many Egyptian dishes that raise tourists’ eyebrows in disbelief when they first lay eyes on it. Soon after, however, this surprised and doubtful expression is replaced with one of deligh...

With an enthusiastic and heavily publicised response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Egypt had shown some promise over the first year of locally-endorsed social distancing and travel quarantines in Marsa Alam. This steadfast handling, however, was cut prem...

Following a gas explosion at a doctor’s clinic in Damanhour, social media users widely shared pictures and videos showing a group of young men climbing a wooden ladder to save the victims of the fire. Labeled as ‘superheroes’, the y...

Egypt’s Supreme Council for Media Regulation released a statement Monday 20 September announcing the discussion of a new code of ethics for media coverage of suicide news. The new code, which stipulates ten articles, is expected to be issued within...

Mohamed Hussien Tantawi, Former Defence Minister and Field Marshal, died on Tuesday at the age of 85 after battling health complications since July 2021, announced the Egyptian Presidency. “Egypt has lost one of its most loyal sons and military sym...

A leather trench coat transformed into a trendy two-piece set, a once-boring blue turtleneck brought to life with strategically-placed embroidery – these are just some of the inspiring creations featured in The Washed Out Label, a new fashion brand...

Following recent investigative reports by the New York Times and Washington Post, US authorities admitted on Friday that one of its last drone strikes in Afghanistan, days before its complete military pullout, killed 10 civilians. Calling it a ‘...

Egypt will no longer be on the United Kingdom’s COVID-19 ‘red list’ as of 4 a.m. on Wednesday, 22 September, meaning that there will no longer be a self-financed, 10-day mandated hotel quarantine for those traveling from Egypt to En...