Did you know that many of the Egyptian colloquial words Egyptians use on a daily basis are not actually Arabic? The Egyptian Arabic dialect is fundamentally Arabic, but with the influence of history and local populations, some of the peculiarities th...

A draft law lowering the age requirement for the national identification card, to be at 15 years old rather than 16, was approved during a cabinet meeting on July 20. The draft law also stipulates that the document is issued within six months of reac...

A passion for traveling, a love for sports, and a mission to promote environmental conservation led Nagore López and Jon Puente, a teacher and a physiotherapist from Spain, to paddle down the River Nile, making Egypt their first kayaking trip destin...

Greater Cairo, Egypt’s largest metropolitan area, which consists of Cairo, Giza, and Qalubiya, covers almost 20 percent of Egypt’s entire population at 21 million inhabitants. It comes as no surprise, then, that those who imagine Egypt, often ima...

Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Khaled El-Enani announced in an interview on 18 July that Prime Minister, Mostafa Madbouly, asked him to coordinate with the state authorities and state agencies to set laws permitting photography in streets and pu...

At least 22 people were killed and 33 injured in a crash between a bus and a truck on the Cairo-Assiut road on Tuesday morning near Egypt’s Minya. A passenger bus hit a truck on a highway linking Cairo to Upper Egypt. The truck was not moving on th...

Following a superior streak of victories, Egypt’s national handball team were crowned champions in this year’s African Handball Championship on 18 July in Cairo, defeating dark horse Cape Verde 37-25 in the final to clinch their second consecutiv...

“I did say and I say again, you need not be a Jew to be a Zionist.” Those were the words of US President Joe Biden, a devout Catholic, to a group of Israeli officials upon arriving in Tel Aviv on 13 July 2022. This statement, made proudly in refe...

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi met with United States’ President Joe Biden for the first time on 16 July during Jeddah’s Security and Development Summit. “President El-Sisi underlined the importance of this partnership’s role in pro...

The arrival of a newborn in the family is an unmatched joy– between happily teary-eyed faces and an excitement for the future – Egyptians welcome newborns in revelry, most notably known as the Egyptian sebou’ (The Seventh). The sebou’ is a ri...