On the congested streets of Cairo, Egypt’s capital city, rider Dina Wassef is mounting a motorcycle, presenting a rare sight. With a population of 104 million, Egypt is a conservative country where it ...

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In Egypt women rappers like Dareen are battling to make their mark in a booming industry long-dominaed by men - Copyright AFP Ahmed HASAN In Egypt women rappers like ...

This past June 30-year-old Egyptian socialist, writer, and lesbian activist Sarah Hegazi committed suicide in Canada. Her last Instagram photo showed her laying under a blue sky with the words "The ...

The Pharaohs enter a closed training camp starting today, February 27. Women's Africa Cup of Nations 2026: Egypt ramps up preparations! The Egypt women's national team embarks today, February 27, on a ...

Jill Biden arrived in Cairo on Friday, on the second leg of her six-day trip across the Middle East, North Africa and Europe that seeks to promote empowerment for women and education for young people.

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Before I moved to Egypt in 2011, I had a picture of the country in my mind. It was full of accomplished women, I imagined, and was progressive and cosmopolitan in ways that many Western observers didn ...

Two women, one Austrian and the other Romanian, were killed in shark attacks this week off the coast of Egypt, Egypt's environment ministry and the tourists' respective foreign ministries said Sunday.

When the British government of David Lloyd George denied any chance to the party of politician and fervent separatist Saad Zaghloul, the Wafd, to discuss an independent Egyptian republic, citizens all ...

In Egypt women rappers like Dareen are battling to make their mark in a booming industry long-dominaed by men — Ahmed HASAN Egyptian rapper Dareen is a whirlwind of sharp verses and curly hair on ...