I would like to buy a house.  This thought has been floating around my mind for a while now. As a young adult in my late twenties, it feels as though it should somehow be feasible for me to become a homeowner. The harsh reality of the situation howe...

Egyptian Streets is starting a podcast! The Egyptian Streets podcast is a fortnightly podcast spotlighting rich conversations with exceptional people. Featuring Egyptians from around the world who fuel creative social change and their journeys that b...

To be healthy. To be kind. To survive. When a year comes to a close, many people decide on new intentions, goals, and resolutions, and set targets to achieve by the end of the new year. For example, gyms are famously far more crowded in January than ...

Renowned Egyptian screenwriter Wahid Hamed passed away Saturday morning at the age of 76. His son, film director Marwan Hamed, announced the news. The late screenwriter reportedly suffered from several health problems and was admitted to a hospital i...

“This begging thing is very difficult for all of us, as I am sure it is for you, but what are we going to do? We need each and everyone of you to feel and sympathize. “We need people to stand in solidarity with Seif because you have all, unfortun...

On 26 December, Cairo Jazz Club (CJC), a prominent bar with two locations across Cairo, Egypt hosted an event, despite the rise in COVID-19 cases in Egypt, a North African band based in Cairo, performed at the event that included an excessive number ...

Thousands of revellers marking New Year’s Eve in Egypt’s coastal city of Alexandria who were captured on video chanting against COVID-19 have sparked fears of a mass outbreak. Despite the Egyptian government banning New Year’s Eve c...

The Egyptian cabinet announced on 31 December the suspension of in-person classes in schools and universities across the Egypt for the remainder of the current semester starting Saturday, 2 January. It further announced the postponing of all in-perso...

  If we have to summarize the changes that happened to the Egyptian family over the past decade, the most honest thing to say is this: we don’t know everything. With thousands of articles, books and films trying to explain the reasons behi...

Earlier today, the Cairo Economic Court issued a decision sentencing Ahmed Bassam Zaki to three years in prison, local media reports. The court has also transferred the civil suit against the notorious sexual predator to the proper authorities for ad...