In the summer of 1975, a 19-year-old with no formal musical training sat down with a decade-old poem and, amid the beginning of a civil war, composed a melody he assumed few would hear. Fifty years later, Ounadikom (I Call on You, 1976) is still bein...

Talaat Moustafa Group has unveiled detailed plans for The Spine, a 5-kilometre, 2.4 million sqm mixed-use corridor in Madinaty featuring Egypt's first cognitive city infrastructure, a car-free public realm, 165 towers, and a Special Investment Zone. ...

  Oum Kalthoum, Abdel Halim Hafez, Asmahan, and Mohamed Abdel Wahab were not simply singers who appeared in films. They were, at the time, the cinema.  Their voices carried the emotional weight of entire films, such as Gana El Hawa (Love is in ...

  One year after the release of the book, The Eyes of Gaza (2025), Palestinian journalist and author Plestia Al-Aqad will return to the spotlight in Cairo for a special evening of conversation and reflection at Diwan Bookstore in Heliopolis. The...

Egypt has identified more than 17 million previously undocumented genetic variants in its first large-scale genome study, according to findings from the Egypt Genome Project published on 6 April. The research, which analysed 1,024 individuals across ...

A commoner who worked her way to royalty and power, Queen Tiye would be remembered as a formidable New Kingdom figure in ancient Egypt thousands of years later. Tiye, who lived during the 18th Dynasty, was of non-royal origins. Her father, Yuya, serv...

A wave of viral  TikTok videos has sparked a heated debate in Egypt: are women getting a worse financial deal in modern marriage? From complaints about splitting expenses 50/50 to frustration over disappearing dowries, the conversation has struck a ...

Trigger Warning: This article contains references to suicide and a fatal incident that may be distressing to some readers. Egypt’s National Council for Childhood and Motherhood has announced that support is being provided to two children following ...

  Sabrina Carpenter’s Coachella 2026 headlining set on Friday night turned into a cultural debate on contrasting cultural expressions in music and the varying levels of acceptance they receive. While performing, the pop star paused after h...