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...

Egypt’s Parliament moved on Monday, 10 November, to press the transport minister for answers after a collision between two passenger trains south of the capital killed seven people and injured more than 100. The House of Representatives’ Transpor...

When the money meant to send a blind grandmother on the pilgrimage of her lifetime disappears, her grandson does not tell her the truth. He recruits the whole neighborhood to help him lie. That is the premise of Alashan Khater Galeela (In the Name of...

  Egypt will launch a national programme for the early detection and treatment of childhood cancers in January 2027, with an estimated cost of EGP 1.8 billion (USD 33 million) and a target of reducing diagnosis times by at least 20 percent. Heal...