Before the start of nearly every week, my mom picks up her phone and looks through the messages of a WhatsApp group for weekend retreats. What first began as a short trip once a month evolved to a trip nearly every weekend, almost like a weekly routi...

It’s cold. You’re tucked in under your super soft and cosy blanket, watching your favorite TV show, and spending the weekend chilling in bed. Nothing can compare to a warm drink to keep you company and make you feel extra comfortable. Hot chocola...

Egyptian Actress Soheir El-Bably passed away on Sunday, 21 November at the age of 86 from an escalation of a diabetic coma at a Cairo hospital, reports Al-Masrawy. According to Al-Youm7, El-Bably had been struggling with health issues for weeks and h...

The fourth edition of the World Youth Forum (WYF) will be held in Sharm El-Sheikh next year from 10-13 January, 2022, following its postponement due the COVID-19 pandemic. The online enrolment is currently open and accepting registrations through its...

For the first time since 2019, RiseUp Summit, one of the region’s largest entrepreneurship events, is coming back at a new venue: the iconic Pyramids of Giza. From 25 to 27 November, 150 startups per day, more than 150 speakers, and over 50 worksho...

A filmmaker’s perspective of photographs is unique; their development ends up looking like movie stills and can often capture an array of emotions that bring the phrase “a picture is worth a thousand words” to life. This rings true in the case ...

After on-going restoration efforts, the Avenue of Sphinxes (El Kebbash Road) is to be unveiled Thursday 25 November. The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has sent open invitations to a number of foreign ambassadors and public figures, reports Al A...

Granite catches the light and a felaha looks across the Cairo University Bridge. She is one of two figures immortalized in sculpture, known as Nahdet Misr, or Egypt’s Renaissance: woman and sphinx, a pair who summarize the essence of Egypt at a gla...

Freedom of belief is only true freedom of belief when it’s fashionable. It’s the take-off point for every double-standard that exists in the public sphere, now increasingly apparent with Muslim women’s right to exercise their personal ideologie...

In a breezy corner of Madinaty’s open-air mall, you can find Breadfast’s first flagship store. As someone who has been longing for a good spot close to home to meet friends at, I could not wait to go and try it out. You know how in movies and TV ...