As I drove my new car home from the dealership, I contemplated my next drive, the trip I’m dreading most: visiting the nearest traffic unit to get it registered for a license plate number. An unavoidable trip dreaded by every Egyptian who has ever ...

For the first time in its history, the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) issued the country’s first plastic polymer-made banknote in the denomination of EGP 10, on Monday, 5 July. As per Al Ahram, the CBE stated that these new banknotes will not replace ...

With a week-long Eid Al Adha break coming up, Cairo is expected to be a ghost town. From Thursday onwards, most people will rush to beaches and resorts outside the busy city and along Egyptian coastlines. For the few who forgot to save up for this ho...

On Wednesday, 6 July, the Mansoura Criminal Court confirmed 21-year old university student Mohamed Adel death’s sentence following the Grand Mufti, Shawki Ibrahim Allam’s approval. The ruling, imposed for the most serious crimes nationwide, was i...

For the first time in President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s presidency, a national dialogue is taking place. According to a press conference/news report schedule, it is set to kickstart Tuesday, 4 July 2022. A national dialogue can best be described as ...

A bustling crowd, children screaming, mothers grasping their little ones’ hands while attempting not to fall down, and college students commuting home, textbooks in hand. To top it all off, a fatigued man with a gaunt face sells mobile phone stands...

Decked on the shimmery banks of the Nile are a line of wooden houseboats – two-storey structures that constitute a safe space for their inhabitants and visitors alike – that are tethered to shore by ropes. They are unable to move on their own, bu...

Egyptian authorities have shut off parts of the Red Sea coast after a shark attacked two tourists, killing one, a 68-year-old Austrian woman. The attack, coinciding with the summer holiday season and the arrival of Eid Al-Adha in Egypt in which many ...

On Sunday, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi witnessed the inauguration of Egypt’s transportation hub at the Adly Mansour Central Station, which is the largest station in the Middle East and Africa, the State Information Service reports. On the same d...

The arrival of Disney’s ‘Moon Knight’ (2022) came with the realization that I am the “Egyptian friend” to a lot of people. I received a number of texts asking me for my opinion of Marvel’s newest release. It’s fair: they all know I jump...