Egypt is the country of a thousand authors, but few are remembered across generations as the luminaries of the craft. Bahaa Taher was a novelist, a literary connoisseur, and one of the most widely read authors of his generation. Born in Cairo in 1935...

Money Fellows, a leading Egyptian fintech platform, has succeeded in raising EGP 696 million (USD 31 million) in a Series B funding round on 30 October 2022. This is an impressive leap from its previous Series A funding round which raised EGP 63 mill...

Egypt has long been the setting for horror stories, from ancient Egyptian ghost folklore to a haunted hospital in Helwan. Still, one building stands out: the Roushdy Building, Alexandria’s first house of horror. The 61-year-old, 11-storey apartment...

Egyptian gentrification politics are devoid of nuance, and more often than not, also devoid of empathy. Though gentrification in and of itself is a two-pronged beast—a discussion of poverty and heritage in the same, thinned breath—it is not a dia...

Ten million Egyptians work abroad – half of that number work in the Gulf, bringing their home country more than EGP 460 billion (USD 20 billion) in remittances each year. Yet the Egypt-to-Gulf migration experience is far more than a statistic. Behi...

“I’m tired, I want to die,” Nael Mohamed, a 14 year-old Sudanese boy, once expressed after he was attacked by two Egyptians in the streets of Cairo. Captured in a video that was later uploaded to TikTok, the two men were seen throwing stones an...

The United Kingdom’s new Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader, Rishi Sunak, announced on 28 October his decision to not attend COP27, the annual climate summit hosted by Egypt in Sharm El-Sheikh starting 6 November 2022. The reasoning behin...

Egyptians woke up on Thursday to more news anxiety, with the local currency sliding to a record new low, falling by more than 14 percent against the U.S. dollar. The news comes after the Central Bank of Egypt’s acting governor, Hassan Abdalla, said...

It is that time of the year once more: when summer vacations come to a close, and the cool autumn breeze gradually drops in temperatures, as Egyptians begin ditching t-shirts and light fabrics for their winter wardrobe. While summer is often associat...

Applying for a visa can often be an obstacle that forces many Egyptians to cancel travel plans or delay them, whether due to fear of being rejected, or unaffordable application costs. Despite ranking in the 94th place out of 112 countries on Henley a...