Egyptian Streets
Fri, 14 Oct 2022 10:59:25 +0000Mo Salah Makes History Again with Quickest Champions League Hat-Trick
Mohamed Salah made UEFA Champions League history with a hat-trick in record time in Liverpool FC’s 7-1 defeat of Glasgow Rangers. He scored his three goals within six minutes and 12 seconds. Salah was left out of the starting line-up, but was later...
Thu, 13 Oct 2022 18:01:32 +0000“We Don’t Celebrate Rainfall Like Before”: Egypt’s Bedouins Send a Message Ahead of COP27
In St. Catherine, nature speaks a different language. While we — urban settlers —often speak of trees in our own terms, seeing them as beautiful scenery, the Bedouins in Sinai have taught me to not just think of nature aesthetically, but to also ...
Thu, 13 Oct 2022 13:36:29 +0000Ratios Bakery: Where Dreams Crumb True
Delectable smells come tipoteing from the oven door, and there is contagious comfort at the sight, smell, and taste of bakeries: brief moments of tangible – and edible – happiness. Tucked away in a cozy street on road 11 in Maadi, Ratios is a mic...
Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:02:30 +0000Hulu’s Third Season of ‘Ramy’ is Brutally Honest and Authentically Spiritual
The critically acclaimed Hulu dramedy Ramy (2019) has never failed to tap into human emotion, and the third season is no different. Premiering 30 September on Hulu and OSN +, the events pick up a year after season two’s finale, which ended with Ram...
Wed, 12 Oct 2022 15:34:39 +0000Egypt’s Consumer Inflation Hits 15%, Highest in 4 Years
Egypt’s annual urban consumer inflation has spiked to 15 percent, its highest in four years, according to data from the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) on 10 October 2022. Consumer inflation is a term that signifies t...
Wed, 12 Oct 2022 11:45:20 +0000Educating Young Egyptian Comedians: valU and Al Hezb El Comedy Launch Scholarships for Aspiring Jokesters
Egypt prides itself on its nokta (joking) culture, often as an outlet for explaining everyday life in the country, in both the darkest and brightest of times. This culture came to life with the rise of comedic films, such as ‘Asal Eswed (Bitterswee...
Tue, 11 Oct 2022 12:51:22 +0000Review: ‘The Tent’ Exposes the Mental Health Burden of Bedouin Women
Was she really a woman? Fatima contemplates, as her grandmother walks inside the tent, covered in a large dark-blue garment that absorbs every atom in the air, and carries the vastness of the desert with it. The desert’s landscape is only a natural...
Tue, 11 Oct 2022 11:06:20 +0000These Egyptian Films Helped Change the Law
Egypt has long been home to the Arab world’s golden screen – the Hollywood of the Middle East. Since the first feature-length film in 1927, Egypt’s cinematic commentary has tackled social, political, and cultural issues. A special setlist of th...
Mon, 10 Oct 2022 16:33:42 +0000Google Doodle Celebrates Egyptian Historian Mostafa El-Abbadi on His 94th Birthday
Google has paid homage to renowned Egyptian historian and scholar, Mostafa El-Abbadi in its latest signature Doodle on 10 October, celebrating what would have been his 94th birthday. El-Abbadi was a prominent historian and professor of Greco-R...
Mon, 10 Oct 2022 11:31:43 +000090 World Leaders to Attend COP27 in Egypt
Around 90 heads of state will be flying to Egypt for the United Nations’ 27th Climate Change Conference (COP27), set to begin on 6 November and conclude by 18 November. “We’ve received a large number of confirmations from around the wor...