In the fifth edition of the Global Knowledge Index leaders for 2021 revealed on Monday, Egypt climbed 19 positions and came first among African nations, moving up from the 72nd to the 53rd place among 154 countries. The Global Knowledge Index is a su...

A bead of sweat loosens her brow and her voice folds into the final notes of breath: it is the end of another show. Broadway gives its light to the applause, the curtain falls, and all Shereen Ahmed can feel is the anxious, riveting excitement of cha...

There are certain holiday songs that inject a nostalgic feeling everytime we approach winter, and for some odd reason, remain popular year after year no matter how old they are. You walk into any restaurant and you hear “Last Christmas”. “Jingl...

Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid presented to Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry 95 Egyptian relics that were illegally smuggled into Israel last week, which occurred during Lapid’s diplomatic visit to Cairo to hold talks with President...

Less than 24 hours after Egypt declared, in late November, that no cases of the new COVID-19 variant Omicron have been detected in Egypt, Canada announced that travellers arriving from Egypt and several other countries would not be permitted to enter...

Egypt’s Emergency State Security Misdemeanor Court, Mansoura Division, has ordered the release of researcher Patrick George Zaki pending trial after spending nearly two years in jail, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) said in a...

If there was ever a backbone of Egyptian society, it would find itself braided into the fabric of women. Egyptian women have played various roles over the course of a long, arduous history – between queens and mothers, mystics and merchants, Eg...

“We take a lot of decisions and we’re quite independent. How are we so afraid of what people might say about our natural hair?” says Doaa Gawish, Founder of The Hair Addict. Growing up, many Egyptian women faced immense criticism for their ...

“What do you want to be when you grow up?” Seven-year-old Rahma Adel lifted her eyes from the paper she was coloring and answered “a house painter because a wall is the biggest paper I can paint on.” From the age of seven, Rahma knew that pai...

In a question and answer session held on Sunday, 5 December, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi gave directives for the government to establish a fund to support disabled Egyptians. The session was held at an event celebrating the International ...