What do spaghetti dinners, awkward shopping trips, and puberty have in common? They are in scenes in one of the best Egyptian short films of the year. The short film, 32B: Mashakel Dakhilia (32B: Internal Conflicts), 2026, takes a topic Egyptian cine...

On a quiet street in Cairo, a group of men gathers around a small ahwa, a traditional Egyptian coffeehouse. Tea glasses line the table. One man scrolls through a football match on his phone. Another stares into the street, cigarette in hand. A chessb...

  The Egyptian Football Association announced that the “seven stars” traditionally shown on the national team jersey, symbolizing Egypt’s seven Africa Cup of Nations titles, will be removed for the current World Cup after a Fédération In...

I first stepped into the City of the Dead on a sunny afternoon in December 2021. It was my first time walking through this historic necropolis, a city within the city, where the living and the dead share space in quiet resilience. Cairo’s chaotic r...

Before Anghami, Spotify playlists and viral TikTok sounds, there was the soft click of a cassette sliding into place, the whirr of tape rewinding, and album covers that told stories before a single note played. Across Egypt, these tapes once carried ...

Humanitarian aid sent from Egypt to the Gaza Strip has surpassed one million tons since the outbreak of the war in October 2023, according to a statement issued by the Egyptian Red Crescent (ERC) on Wednesday,10 June. The milestone was highlighted du...

  Egypt is aiming to vaccinate at least 70 percent of stray dogs against rabies as part of a broader shift toward a more scientific and regulated framework for managing the stray dog population, according to the General Authority for Veterinary ...

At first glance, Asad might seem like a historical action film set in nineteenth-century Egypt. But, as the film unfolds, it becomes something more immediate: a fictional story rooted in a historical backdrop, using that world to explore ideas of dig...

  Egyptian actress Salma Abu Deif has been featured among the faces of Loewe’s new campaign launched earlier this week, marking 180 years since the founding of the Spanish luxury house, joining a cast of international figures selected to repre...