Egypt has declared Saturday 25 April an official paid public holiday to mark Sinai Liberation Day, according to a statement issued by Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly on Sunday 20 April. The decision applies to employees across ministries, government ...

The Egyptian Red Crescent (ERC) said it received on Sunday 19 April  the 36th group of wounded and ill Palestinians via the Rafah border crossing, providing services to facilitate the movement of patients and their companions. ERC support included h...

Iran has once again closed the Strait of Hormuz on 18 April, reversing a brief reopening of the critical maritime corridor after the United States refused to lift its blockade on Iranian ports. Iranian military authorities confirmed on Saturday that ...

Egypt has welcomed the announcement of a 10-day ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel, describing it as a positive step toward de-escalation, according to a statement released on Thursday 16 April. The agreement, announced by US President Donald Trump...

  The Public Prosecution inaugurated on Wednesday, 15 April, the first three child-friendly investigation rooms, established with support from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).  The rooms are located at the Sheikh Zayed Prosecu...

  “Reality is far more terrifying than anything we portray on screen,” Egyptian actress and cultural icon Youssra said during a panel discussion titled Balancing the Scales to mark International Women’s Day at the Australian Ambassador’s...

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 ...