For African-Americans in the 90s, comedy sitcoms such as ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’ introduced the idea of the ‘Black American Dream’. Historically, Black people on American television were rarely presented without negative stereotypes, ye...

Located just a few meters across from the UAE pavilion, with hieroglyphic letters inscribed on its walls, stands the three-storey Egypt pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai. Under the theme ‘Legacy Empowering the Future’, the 3,000 square meter pavilion r...

On the evening of Monday, 1 November, Luxor International Airport received EgyptAir’s first flight coming from London’s Heathrow Airport after a two-year hiatus due to the Coronavirus pandemic. The Luxor-London flights are set to operate during w...

Breadfast, Egypt’s leading grocery delivery platform, announced on Wednesday that it had secured $US 26 million in a Series A round co-led by Vostok New Ventures and Endure Capital. The round, which also saw participation from JAM Fund, YC Cont...

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi gave a speech at the 2021 COP26 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, on 1 November, calling for the international community to support Africa’s climate change concerns a...

“We felt that children were an untapped audience un-exposed to the need to lead a sustainable lifestyle,” say Alia Tobala and Farida El Araby, co-founders of Nebny. As two young Egyptian women with a perpetual interest in leading and promoting a ...

First created by artist Jake Parker in 2009, Inktober is an annual challenge where artists from around the world post daily sketches on social media based on prompts posted by the official Inktober Instagram account, which boasts more than one millio...

The term “creative coding” may sound odd because the two words don’t seem to go together; the term “coding” is usually associated with pragmatism and logic rather than art and creativity. However, creative coding is where self-expression an...

Chicken with teen shooki (prickly pear) sauce and chicken with harankash (gooseberry) sauce are just some of the creations birthed by Chef Mohamed Elkaneshy that led him to become a symbol of culinary innovation in Alexandria. Elkaneshy owns Khubz Sa...

A melancholy tune rises from the riverbed, sweetened by personal grief; it is the mark of El Naddaha, the caller. An Egyptian jinn, rumoured to stalk the night in search of fresh blood. She is no different than the Sirens of Greece mythos, relying on...