The last sovereign of the land of the pharaohs has just celebrated his 74th birthday in Switzerland. Meanwhile, his eldest son has decided to settle in his homeland, where there is a growing interest ...

Abdel Sayed's 1991 classic Kit Kat, about an unruly blind man from the working-class Cairo neighbourhood, is one of Egypt's ...

The Iran of the mullahs transfers its capital abroad, sanctuarizes its security apparatus, fires on its own population while ...

In ‘The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump’, dozens of mental health experts warned that aspects of his personality could pose a ...

Typically novelists who decide to write their memoirs don't opt to dictate them. This unusual approach is the one taken by Bahaa Taher with his latest book, titled Biography in Exile. This offering ...

Nawal El Sadawi’s Egyptian novel was first published in Arabic in 1977, and Sherif Hetata’s English translation was published ...

Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat’s romantic comedy “No Good Men” has been set as this year’s Berlin Film Festival opener. The German-backed film, set inside a Kabul newsroom during the democratic era ...

The Trump administration waded into a regional debate over the Muslim Brotherhood on Tuesday, designating the Lebanese, Jordanian and Egyptian chapters of the transnational Sunni ...

In the spacious Celebration Hall of Cairo University last week 500 delegates from more than 40 countries rallied under a huge banner showing two hands, one light and one dark, clasped around a torch ...

In the collective memory of nations and the chronicles of their history, there are names, years, and even entire centuries that endure, untouched by the passage of time or the tumult of events. Among ...

German club Mainz have lost a court appeal for wrongful dismissal by Dutch winger Anwar El Ghazi. The Bundesliga side terminated El Ghazi's contract in November 2023 following a series of social media ...