This week saw the wrap up of a British Council-funded project in Cairo that aimed at promoting the creative economy.
The term was coined in 2001 and is defined by the UN as including the creative industries such as advertising, architecture, arts (...)
How to deal with children properly can be many parents' worst nightmare. Are you being too present, or not present enough? How can you help your children be the best versions of themselves?
Questions like these often linger at the back of any (...)
“No, ya Abdel-Rahman” is a kind of family joke, one that mocks the sociocultural standards of many upper middle-class Egyptians who on the one hand insist on pronouncing the names of their children in proper Arabic while continuing to address them (...)
“Yes, this is it,” said the woman who was trying on one of the dresses to her husband. “It's Soad Hosni style. Remember how I used to dress like this all the time back then,” she asked, at which he smiled.
At Lebet Al-Set (Women's Game), a clothing (...)
With the global refugee total passing the 20 million threshold for the first time since 1992 in 2016, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has come up with an initiative that aims to preserve the memories of lost homes on the (...)
Manar Moursi, an Egyptian architect, last week represented Egypt in the annual ArcVision Prize. The brainchild of the Italcementi Group, Arcvision is a three-year-old award that recognises women architects.
The idea is to reward female architects (...)
At her office in Cairo, Karine Kamel is busy all day connecting corporates with their social responsibilities. Bridge Egypt is her brainchild. Registered as a limited company like most social businesses in Egypt, it provides corporate social (...)