A new literary destination celebrating Arab voices, diasporic perspectives, and stories from across the Global South has officially launched in Canada.  Diwan Canada has opened its online bookstore, introducing readers to a carefully curated ...

  You can belong to a country without necessarily knowing its mother tongue. For third-culture kids, who grow up navigating different cultural environments, identifying with Egypt does not necessarily mean speaking its language. They may be surr...

Seven-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton has called Gaza an “open-air prison” after visiting Egypt’s Rafah border crossing, saying he witnessed aid trucks waiting to cross the border and essential relief items being turned away when...

  An Egyptian court has ordered on Tuesday, 10 November, the inclusion of 35 organizations and 36 individuals on the country’s lists of terrorist entities and terrorists for a period of five years.  A court in Badr city, Cairo, issued the rul...

In the stark desert south of the oasis town of Baris, doum palms, known as “l-Nakheel El-Bahari,” grow, drawing on groundwater far below the sand through roots that have sustained them for centuries, perhaps millennia. Wadi el-Doum, the “valley...

For nearly seven decades, Ahmed Toughan drew Egypt as it saw itself and as it wished it did not; infected with colonial powers and presidents, weary bureaucrats and struggling families, each captured in a few lines that readers could grasp at a glanc...

  A New Cairo misdemeanor court has postponed the retrial of Mada Masr Editor-in-Chief Lina Attalah to 18 November to consider her lawyers’ request that the judge remove himself. She faces charges of publishing false news and running a web...

Egypt won the Gold Award for culture and heritage at the 25th annual Wanderlust Reader Travel Awards on 4 November, voted by readers of the British magazine, as the country courts record tourism. Ahmed Yousry, chief executive of the Egyptian Tourism ...

Egypt’s national railway said on Monday, 9 November, that trains were running again between Cairo and the High Dam in Aswan, one day after a collision in Giza Province killed seven people and injured 125. Egyptian National Railways said crews had r...