The Egyptian Handball team claimed the top position in Group B after defeating Portugal 37-31 on Saturday 24 July in the Preliminary Round of the Handball competition at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Egypt’s 20-year-old Ahmed Hesham Doudou was the t...

Earlier this month, the Coptic Orthodox community in Vancouver, Canada woke up to a devastating tragedy after the St.George Coptic Orthodox Church was destroyed in a fire. The cause of the fire, which started around 3:30AM on Monday 19 July, is being...

Well-known American news website ‘TIME’ has included Cairo as part of its World’s Greatest Places of 2021 list. The New York-based magazine noted that it compiled the 100-strong list as “as a tribute to the people and businesses at th...

Nour El Sherbini and Ali Farag won PSA World’s Championship after defeating Nouran Gohar and Mohammed Farag respectively on Friday 23 July in Chicago, Illinois. It is the fifth time for 25-year-old El Sherbini to win the Women’s PSA World Champio...

Egypt’s Ministry of Social Solidarity announced on Tuesday that an orphan child is now permitted to include the names of foster parents in their birth certificate, after receiving the approval of the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, local media reports....

The Pharaohs have managed to stave off an aggressive Spanish side in their first football contest at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Egypt, who are in Group C along with Spain, Argentina and Australia, played a defensive match against the Spaniards, with fe...

Spending the Eid vacation in Cairo has its own charm; the empty streets open up a world of possibilities that are usually challenging due to Cairo’s traffic. Whether you’d like to dance the night away, learn a new skill, or explore new genres of ...

Spending the Eid break by the beach is great, but there’s a certain charm to spending it in Cairo as well; the streets are empty so you can go anywhere in town in no time. There are a lot of activities you can do in Cairo during Eid, but a wonderfu...

Two former Egyptian Olympic medalists, Taekwondo fighter Hedaya Malak and Fencer Alaa Abouelkassem, were chosen by the Egyptian Olympic Committee (EOC) to carry the Egyptian flag at Friday’s opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympic Games. Hedaya will ...

They say that there is nothing more wholesome than the memories we create during childhood, and in Egypt, there are no memories that are quite like the ones we create on Eid. There would simply be no Eid holiday if it weren’t for the childhood ritu...