On 1 May 2021, in a viral live online video broadcast, Cairo Designathon Round II (CDRII) concluded its design marathon announcing the winning teams for the second edition of the MENA region’s only online collaborative design marathon. CDRII attem...

Growing up in an unwelcoming city for women with strict parents, I never developed a sense of ownership over Cairo’s streets despite having lived here my entire life. I was 18 when I took them on, alone, for the first time, bursting a bubble that h...

The Egyptian Interior Ministry announced on 30 May that it apprehended the foreign national who recently appeared in a viral video harassing an Egyptian woman. Al-Ahram reports that the man’s arrest occurred as he was attempting to leave Egypt....

Today, cheap and reliable fossil fuel defines the way we live and our energy consumption—from transportation to entertainment and even our food supply chains. It seems nearly impossible that this can change overnight, but the reality is that we mu...

Over a week has passed since the ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza, yet Palestinians everywhere still feel the trauma of the 11-day carnage and the overall weight of the conflict with Israel. In Gaza, where entire families an...

Egypt’s top champions Mohamed ElShorbagy and Nour El Sherbini are the 2021 El Gouna International Squash Open champions, after they overcame World No.4 Paul Coll and World No.2 Nouran Gohar to win the PSA World Tour Platinum event, which was he...

In October 2020, I moved to the Bedouin town of Dahab in South Sinai. A couple of weeks later, I found myself in Nuweiba, where I visited a peculiar Wilderness Therapy Centre under construction. Back then, it was a vast empty land, with olive trees s...

TW: article contains the subject of abortions, and pregnancy. I can still feel how the air left my chest when I saw the second line appear on the test. I always thought I would know exactly what I wanted if I ever found out I was pregnant. In reality...

Shot and produced in only four days, ‘600 Kilos’ is a short film directed by Mohammed Ashraf Koushi which covers the theme of self-exploration. The short film has to date participated in the Luxor African Film Festival (official selection), Houst...

Satirist Shady AbouZaid was released from prison on Tuesday the 25th of May and has now returned home to his family, according to a post on his Facebook account. AbouZaid was first arrested in May 2018 on charges of joining an illegal group and sprea...