On the surface, Syrian-born poet Nizar Qabbani was either seen as someone who objectified women or as someone who was overt about sensuality. He was often labeled with many different titles; some have described him as a progressive Arab poet, ...

  On Sunday, 30 August, Sharif Fathi, Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, inspected the Giza Pyramids area to track progress and review work stages for the fixed balloon project currently underway there. The project is being carried out by ‘T...

A fire broke out on Sunday, 30 August, at August Mall in the Fifth Settlement district of New Cairo, where many shops, offices and restaurants are, sending emergency crews racing to the scene and briefly disrupting one of the Egyptian capital’s bus...

The Egyptian Ministry of Youth and Sports released a statement on 27 August announcing that it had referred the two cases involving national wrestlers who vanished from their delegations abroad to the public prosecutor’s office, saying that athleti...

  Egypt’s Cabinet  denied on Sunday 30 August circulating claims that the government plans to transfer ownership of the Suez Canal to the Central Bank of Egypt as a way to settle part of the state’s domestic debt.  The denial came after so...

Egypt has called for the adoption of a legally binding international protocol on drought, warning that drought, desertification and land degradation are increasingly threatening water and food security, livelihoods and socioeconomic stability. Water ...

Egypt’s women’s table tennis team won gold at the Mediterranean Games in Taranto, Italy, on Wednesday, 29 August, defeating the host nation, Italy, 3-0 in the final after eliminating Serbia by the same score in the semifinals, according to Sherif...

A historic diamond necklace once worn by Egypt’s Queen Nazli at her daughter’s 1939 wedding was stolen from Vienna’s Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) on 27 August, after two men smashed its glass display case and fled with the piece. The theft was ...

  Security authorities in Giza have arrested six individuals, including five students and a delivery worker, following the viral spread of a social media video depicting the violent abduction of a young woman in broad daylight. Investigators tra...