A vulture named Mindy was rescued by Egyptian NGO Nature Conservation Egypt (NCE) from an illegal raptor market. The rescue is a notable victory for nature conservation efforts considering that she is an endangered Egyptian Vulture. The name ‘Mindy...

Following Egypt’s achievements at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, the country is hosting its first ever major international winter sports event, Egypt Ice Hockey Experience 2021 (EIHE 2021), at the ice rink in Cairo’s Genena Mall, Nasr City. ...

Last year in late 2020, I, along with a group of friends, travelled to Luxor in the south of Egypt for a Nile Cruise. While the train to Luxor from Alexandria was packed full of people, the cruise was comparably. Each day, we would disembark the crui...

After a six-year ban, the Egyptian Professional Clubs Association announced on Tuesday, 12 October that with the kickoff of the Egyptian Premier League on 25 October, football fans would be permitted to attend football matches again. According to Al ...

A fire broke out on the morning of Wednesday, 13 October in one section of the Festival Plaza, where the opening ceremony of the fifth edition of the El Gouna Film Festival is scheduled to be held tomorrow. According to a statement released by the Eg...

Somewhere in Garden City, overlooking the Nile and Cairene rooftops, three artists have set up a space to creatively reimagine Egyptian knowledge and society. Farah Haballa, Halim Ramses, and Ali Zaraay call it “Studio 88”, or “a place where we...

“You’re like a Sunsilk advert” is a common jab among Egyptian youth, a way to call someone artificial without the heady confrontation to follow. It’s a nod to decades of Eurocentric beauty standards, of heat-straightened hair and loathing cur...

The first time I visited the Cairo Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CILAS), my Uber driver decided to kick me out in the middle of Old Cairo. “This is as far as I can go”, he said ominously, and told me to get out now. Before I knew it, I ...

Egyptian Public Prosecution authorities ordered the immediate detaining of three men on Sunday 11 October pending investigations into their alleged mishandling of Sinopharm vaccine doses in Minya. Residents of Minya found thousands of COVID-19 vaccin...

Egyptian bodybuilder Mamdouh Elssbiay, also known as “Big Ramy”, has won the Mr. Olympia Championship 2021, retaining his title for the second year in a row. Nineteen athletes went head to head for the Mr. Olympia title, but only Big Ramy, Brando...