A wedding, a henna (bachelorette party), a birthday party, a bedroom, or even during lunch breaks in abandoned middle-school classrooms: these are all places where the infamous sound of Shik Shak Shok rings as girls and women of all ages dance freely...

In the heart of Heliopolis, one of Cairo’s oldest suburbs, a house of horrors once existed. Long before it became a terrifying legend, it was the extravagant, terracotta-colored, Hindu-inspired home of Baron Edouard Empain, a wealthy Belgian indust...

A beaming grin, exaggerated hand gestures, cross-dressing, mishaps, and the occasional self-deprecating comment – these are some of the elements millions of Egyptians gathering around television were exposed to as they watched El Millioner (The Mil...

Egypt’s summer season in Sahel (the North Coast) has not gone as intended for certain beachgoers as those who expected white sands and crystalline waters witnessed turbidity – thick, cloudy waters – and coastal erosion in the form of large rock...

Non-profit organization Space for Humanity (S4H), has chosen Egyptian Engineer Sara Sabry, the country’s first analog astronaut, to join onboard New Shepard’s 22nd space flight (NS-22). The announcement, which was released Friday, 22 July, marks ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the recent international outbreak of Monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern. This classification, announced by the WHO’s director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus during a pre...

“There is a need for healing, indeed.” So opens Ricardo Salvador, an expert in sustainable agriculture practices, in a recent book released this year on climate-smart agricultural solutions. “Within a span of 14 years, we have doubled the amoun...

After five years of diplomatic discord, Egypt’s President, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, welcomed Tamim Bin Hamad, the Emir of Qatar, to Cairo on 25 June 2022 – for the first time since both countries severed ties. The embargo, which began in June 2017, ...

Earlier this July, Netflix released a collection of 21 Arab films by female filmmakers as part of its ‘Because She Created’ campaign. The films, drawn from 11 countries, range from short to feature-length, and are of various genres. According to ...

The European Union (EU) is providing Egypt with a EUR 117.9 million grant to support the budget of the water and energy sectors, the Ministry of International Cooperation announced in a statement. The Minister of International Cooperation Rania Al-Ma...