“You feel like everything has changed while still staying the same.” This was how Khaled Al Kammar, an Egyptian composer, described life in Egypt in 2002 in comparison to 2022. In the early 2000s, Egyptian megastar Amr Diab aired several televisi...

Egypt’s Minister of Finance, Mohamed Maait, announced during a press conference on 29 August that Egypt is planning to issue international bonds denominated in the Chinese yuan worth more than USD 500 million (EGP 9 billion). The Minister added tha...

In a family car roaring down a European highway, an Egyptian couple inserts a USB drive into a black adaptor that screams 2010. In the backseat, two teenagers sit, each looking out of their own window. A scratchy sound emanates from the car’s speak...

Egypt’s population situation continues to rapidly increase, a pattern that has existed for years despite government efforts to battle overpopulation. Egypt’s Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) recorded a 750,000 spike ...

Walking into a hammam for the first time, in celebration of a friend’s imminent marriage, is a time capsule of an experience. Hammam Al-Sultan, the establishment in question, is Egypt’s most popular traditional bathhouse, preserving the legacy an...

In the first half of 2022 alone, at least 18.4 million people in Africa faced acute food insecurity and rising malnutrition due to prolonged drought and four consecutive failed rainy seasons in certain countries. South Africa announced this year a na...

On a crisp winter Cairo day, before the first COVID-19 quarantine struck, I got catcalled during my second undergraduate semester, by a group of male students, on campus. I had almost exclusively worn oversized sweaters back then — not that any out...

The year was 1951. The streets were overflowing with a crowd of Egyptians cheering, dancing and celebrating. It was neither because of a national holiday nor a football match, but of something even more frivolous, and held no real impact on their ord...

In partnership with the Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) and the World Health Organization (WHO Egypt), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Egypt announced on Tuesday 25 August, providing Egypt with new ...

When Dutch documentary filmmakers Joop Van Wijk and Hillie Molenaar visited Egypt’s rural regions in 1981, they were shocked to see the number of child marriage cases – adolescent girls forced into marriage, often by their fathers, and often lack...