After four continuous years of extension, President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi announced the termination of Egypt’s nationwide state of emergency on Monday 25 October. Egypt’s emergency law 167, of 1958, was announced in Egypt by a Presidential Decree ...

An apparent military coup took place in Khartoum, Sudan, on Monday, October 25, after members of Sudan’s cabinet, including the prime minister and a large number of pro-government party leaders were arrested by the military forces. How did the ...

Kim Kardashian is plenty of things, but crusader of obscure causes isn’t really her schtick. Still, by some divine, boozy stroke of luck, Kardashian helped blow the top off an artifact trafficking ring according to a recent podcast episode of A...

As the summer season comes to an end, the North Coast is officially considered off-season and stops receiving the large flocks of visitors usually seen during the hotter months. South Sinai, on the other hand, is visited throughout the entire year, p...

Egypt’s Mohamed Salah became the top-scoring African player in Premier League history after his hat-trick at Old Trafford on Sunday, winning a 5-0 victory against humiliated Manchester United. Mohamed Salah has now overtaken retired Chelsea for...

Fresh out of my bachelor’s degree, I found myself at the Cairo branch of a multinational company, interviewing for what would soon become my very first real job. The conversation between the interviewer and myself went more than smoothly. She was f...

Many international artists have performed by the pyramids of Giza over the years, but their experiences cannot be compared to that of The Grateful Dead in September 1978. The American rock group claimed that they were not there just to perform; they ...

Cats are complex creatures that are admired on a global scale, as evidenced by their prevailing online presence in the meme community. This admiration rings truer in Egypt because ancient Egyptians not only kept cats as pets; they would also mummify ...

It is understandably difficult to belong to any place that is far away, especially if you never grew up there or spent a good amount of years living in the country to understand its people and culture. As a parent of an Egyptian child who lives abroa...

“My grandmother’s living room in Heliopolis is one of my favorite places in the world,” says 24-year-old Nora Zeid, with a big smile on her face. In her efforts to reconnect with her hometown, specifically Heliopolis where her parents grew ...