Bongo beats follow the mellow marimba tunes as the singer starts chanting, eloquently juggling between the languages spoken in the Nile basin countries. The chorus follows in Arabic: "We're all one, in every part of the world, we're all one."
Kulina (...)
The Egyptian Ministry of Health has launched a Medical Protocol for Management of Victims of Gender Based Violence. The protocol was prepared in cooperation with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Regional Center for Training in (...)
In response to the crackdown against homosexuals in Egypt, a group of lawyers and activists launched a guide discussing homosexuality under Egyptian law.
The authors of the guide did not reveal their identity because of "the legal and political (...)
Sobbing sounds fill the dark room, as the young man addresses his daughter.
"I did it for you, so I can see you walking for the first time," he says. He walks on the stage to join six other performers who tell the "Stories of Empty Stomachs".
In a (...)
The independent Egyptian band "CairoKee" has been nominated for the Best Middle East Act category in the MTV European music awards.
The band recently launched their latest album featuring five songs including "El Sekka Shemal" (The way is wrong), (...)
"If not told, the stories will perish," says Nadia Kamel, in the trailer of Salata Baladi (Egyptian Salad), her first film, which she has created to mirror her family's story.
Going through 100 years of mixed marriages, Kamel's film discusses (...)
The electricity goes off, and darkness fills the old building. Tarek grabs a bottle of water, peels off the cover and puts it over a small lamp in cardboard box, instantly creating an emergency light.
This simple tool is one of many "hacks" that (...)
"Having knowledge is the extreme empowerment," says Rasha Abo ElSoud, a 40-year-old entrepreneur who has launched a call for donations to support women in the beginning of their careers.
Abo ElSoud's unique campaign does not raise money, instead, it (...)
Censorship authorities have confiscated three books published by Al-Tanweer Publishing, which were part of a delivery of books entering Egypt on Saturday. The confiscated books include "Introduction to Semiotics" by the Egyptian academic writer Nasr (...)
Four years after 27-year-old American TV personality and singer Heidi Montag underwent 10 cosmetic procedures in one day, independent American researcher Brett Lunceford uses Montag to examine "the ethics of seeking body perfection".
His examination (...)
Dead bodies piled up in the middle of collapsed tents. Charred personal belongings. Bulldozers. Tanks.
A year has passed since the military violently dispersed a sit-in supporting ousted president Mohamed Morsi, killing at least 817 people, (...)
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The number of Egyptians who cannot afford "enough nutritious food" is increasing, one in five Egyptians suffers from food insecurity, according to a new report from international research (...)
A plethora of research has demonstrated a strong link between low socioeconomic status and obesity. But in Egypt, where 70% of the population is overweight, obesity is equally spread among the entire socioeconomic spectrum, according to a study (...)
As an 8-year-old boy, watching to TV show "The Marine World", Ahmed Gabr liked to imagine himself deep in the blue sea pictured on the screen, surrounded by colourful corals and fish.
Now 38 years old with 13 years of diving experience under his (...)
Milad helps his bride, Amal, step out of her parents' house in Mansheyat Nasser. She smiles as she walks before their engagement party in a glittery dark red dress and white shoes that matches his shirt and suit.
The scene, captured by the (...)
The 1955 Porsche pops out of the black background, exquisitely outlined with different shades defining the wheels, the body and the mirrors. It's hard to believe Amal Salah made it using nothing but nails and a block of wood.
Salah, an architect, (...)
A young man roots around inside a fridge at a roadside kiosk, pushing aside Coke cans, searching for just the right one. Each can is labelled with a name: Mai, Hamada, Zizo, Maryouma, Nour, Walaa, Mayada. Where's his?
As part of its latest (...)
Security forces blocked the organisers of the Al-Fan Midan (Art is a Square) street festival from setting up in Abdeen Square Friday, just two weeks after the Cairo-based non-profit secured an agreement with the Ministry of Culture guaranteeing (...)
Security forces blocked the organisers of the Al-Fan Midan (Art is a Square) street festival from setting up in Abdeen Square Friday, just two weeks after the Cairo-based non-profit secured an agreement with the Ministry of Culture guaranteeing (...)
Lanterns lighting the streets, the sounds of paper chains shaking as the wind passes through. The drum beat mixed with the voice of the Mesaharaty, a man who rolls a drum calling people to wake up for Suhour, the late night meal of Ramadan.
This (...)
Piano tunes played right after Iftar, the Egyptian singer Mohamed Mounir sang "Since he was young, he always knew what it means to be an Egyptian," and children chanted "Bakkar", the name of the Nubian child star of the popular Ramadan children (...)
After Asmaa Hamdy was arrested while walking past a protest at Al-Azhar University and sentenced to serve five years in prison she could have grieved and given up. But, instead, she launched a business making and selling handbags from prison.
Hamdy, (...)
The first time Ethar Hassan rode a bicycle, a car pulled over and stopped her. She fell over her bicycle.
"You fell, cutie?" a man said from the car. "I wish I was the bike."
Hassan tells her story on a new blog dedicated chronicling the women's (...)
"What makes you the happiest?"
"When my father and mother are not fighting and he doesn't beat her up," said Gamal, an 11-year-old vendor selling lupine grain, as he smiled and posed for the picture.
Salma Hegab, a teaching assistant at The American (...)
Going through Facebook on his cell phone one day, Kerollos Shokry Atallah pressed "like" and joined a page, "The Knights of the Cross". His neighbours found the page, which posts anti-Islamic videos and blogs posts, offensive and called the police. (...)