Canada’s government announced that it had lifted on Friday, 17 December its travel ban on 10 African countries, including Egypt. Canada’s Minister of Health Jean-Yves Duclos announced that the ban would be lifted effective on December 18.  “Th...

Egypt reported its first three cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 at the Cairo International Airport on Friday, 17 December, according to the Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population. A statement from the Ministry of Health specified that the...

As told in the Bible, the Holy Family, Joseph, Mary and the baby Jesus Christ fled from Palestine to Egypt to seek refuge from the persecution of the Jewish King Herod the Great. As they stayed in Egypt for three years, they lived a nomadic life, tra...

This article was written by Amina Zaineldine and Mona Abdou. Over the past years, we have been forced to grow accustomed to grisly news of sinking boats and lives lost in search of livelihoods on distant shores. These rickety vessels of doom have gon...

This year was a rollercoaster of events and emotions. After being shocked by 2020, we all expected 2021 to be slightly kinder to us, but to many people, 2021 was just as tough. In my case, 2021 was a year of fulfillment. I finally started working in ...

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...