The Aswan International Women Film Festival (AIWFF) announced artist Sawsan Badr as the recipient of the Isis Achievement Award during the opening of the festival’s upcoming sixth edition on 23 February. The AIWFF honored veteran artist Sawsan Badr...

Political activist and mother of Youssef Sameh Al-Arabi, Marwa Kenawy, announced through her Facebook page that two of those accused of shooting her son dead – a dismissed officer and the son of a parliamentarian – received a release from...

Egyptians like to say that the cold in Egypt “goes all the way into your bones,” — a phrase that may seem laughable to anyone from a country that is actually cold. But, while the statement is not remotely scientific, there is a reason why Egypt...

There is a famous metaphor, of lobsters, used by Israeli-American Hasidic rabbi and psychiatrist, Dr. Abraham Twerski, that captures the core of personal development. The story is as follows: when lobsters outgrow their shell, they cannot simply and ...

South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in will arrive in Cairo for the first visit of a South Korean President to Egypt in 16 years on Wednesday, 20 January as part of his Middle East tour. President Abdel-Fatah Al Sisi’s invitation was extended for th...

At only 12 years old, Egyptian-American Sawsan Ahmed earned an associate degree with a concentration in biological science from Broward College, South Florida, in December of 2021, report Egypt Independent and the Daily Mail. She graduated with a per...

Social media, globalization, lack of mental health support, and even the recent COVID-19 pandemic, have all been contributing to a significant rise in divorce and separation rates in Egypt. However, in the past few years, more and more couples have s...

The 32nd Youth Salon, taking place at the Palace of Arts at the Cairo Opera House is set to open on Sunday,16 January 2022. The event will showcase a total of 210 artworks created by 196 rising artists in different artistic fields such as sculpture, ...

Nour, a quarterly review of books by and about Arab women published from 1994 to 2004, has been digitized by the Centre for Arab Unity Studies.  Sharing a wide range of works by Arab women in literature, research and translations, the quarterly revi...

Egypt is no stranger to unrest – rather, it seems to embrace the instability with enough grace to remain standing after upwards of three revolutions in the past half-century alone. Those at the forefront of these movements, however, are not alw...