It is a Saturday morning in the 1920s: errands are run just in time to make your way to Sednaoui El-Khazendar, Egypt’s once-iconic department store. The Sednaoui El-Khazendar building sits gloriously in the al-Mosky district, one of Cairo’s oldes...

Egypt’s two iconic wartime presidents, Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Al-Sadat, look nothing alike. With origins as far apart as Upper Egypt and the Delta respectively, and each with an air that is as memorable as it is distinct from the other’s, o...

On Wednesday, 15 June, Egypt, the European Union (EU), and Israel signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to export natural gas from Israel via Egypt to Europe. This comes as part of the EU’s efforts to reduce reliance on Russian energy imports ...

On the surface, blond and blue-eyed Wolfgang Lotz – also known as the “Jewish James Bond” or the “Champagne Spy” – lived an extravagant lifestyle as a dashing millionaire playboy who mingled with Egyptian elites and military offic...

On 14 June, a joint statement by G7 countries – Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States – and the EU – expressed their support for Egypt during the ongoing global wheat crisis, citing Russia’s invasion of ...

Image Credit: Sabah Khodir/Instagram On Sunday, 12 June, Noura Essam, a 23-year-old Egyptian woman, became the subject of a fervent nationwide search after her alleged kidnapping by her estranged father was shared across social media. Two days later,...

Sitting early in the morning in the living room of my grandmother’s house, we can both hear the birds chirping amid a bustling and noisy main street in Cairo. She gets up to prepare tea for us, my favorite shay be laban (tea with milk) — the one ...

If you’re a trop de choix tue le choix (too much choice kills the choice) kind of person, then the newly opened French bistro, Le Relais de l’Entrecôte, is just what you need. The French bistro is famous for being a single dish restaurant that w...

Si El-Sayed throws open the doors to his home. Amina welcomes him with unconditional servitude; she is the picture of a diligent wife—and he, the tyrannical, seldom-smiling despot. The streetlight creates a cast between them, a power imbalance that...

Egyptian pilot Nevin Darwish and her daughter Perihan El-Badrawy make airline history by becoming the first non-American mother-daughter duo to operate on the same fleet. The two pilots are to become the third mother and daughter in the world to work...