A statue of Ibrahim Pasha stares down the Opera Square, seated over primal traffic and tumbleweeds of litter. Garden City is tight-knit and knotted, padded with congestion. Wust el-Balad – the pulse of Cairo – remains buried in car exhaus...

Marking a first in its legislative history, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has allocated the title of the Supreme Court of justice presidency to a Coptic judge, Bolis Fahmy Eskandar Bolis, reports Al Ahram. Bolis is set to take over the pos...

A picture perfect smile. Sleek hair. A cropped, clean background. Carefully and strategically themed pose. Visually symbolic colors. For just a few seconds, and through just one image, the identity of a nation is defined through a figure. With the Gr...

Mohamed Naguib stands over a crowd. It’s 1952, and the street is a flood of vibrant compassion and indispensable hope. It is at this moment that all present, including Naguib himself, are faced with Egypt’s idle, silent truth: two millennia of su...

It was the early 1950s, and the voice of Umm Kalthoum echoed throughout the region to awaken an era of solidarity, of hope. “People used to have their ears glued to the radio,” recalls prominent Nasserist Abdallah Sennawi. It was an era defined b...

Egypt’s soul is in constant evolution; its streets are a jigsaw-swing of different crowds and its name sounds itself differently in every language. Egypt has developed over the years, taken itself from under monarchies and into modernity – a ...

After a grueling marathon of a final, Egypt just misses out on breaking their own record and winning their eighth Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) title. Senegal snagged their win through a close penalty shootout where both Egypt’s second goalkeep...

Within the world of international football, the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) is one of the least celebrated and most overlooked events. But continentally, it has been a source of joy and celebration for decades. As Egypt prepares for the 2022 AFCON ...

A familiar face in history, but one often overlooked in the books: Mohamed Naguib. One of the fathers of the 1952 revolution — referred to as a coup d’etat in more political cloisters — and Egypt’s first president is an enigmatic figure, ...

Netflix’s latest Arabic original ‘Finding Ola’ landed on the platform on 3 February, shedding light on a woman’s journey of self-discovery, society’s perception of men vs women after divorce, and the struggles of juggling motherhood and a c...