With Ramadan only a few days away, people are beginning the tradition of buying different kinds of nuts ahead of the holy month in order to use them in traditional dishes, whether savoury or desserts.
These include rice with nuts, or roz (...)
Many parents can have trouble understanding what is going on in the lives of their children until it is too late because their children lie to them for different reasons.
Children could be either facing or causing trouble and pretending that (...)
After the Industrial Revolution, the dominant source of energy worldwide became fossil fuels, with horse-drawn carts being replaced by cars fuelled by petrol and furnaces replaced by electric or gas ovens. But although this was a practical shift for (...)
In a neighbourhood full of red brick homes is a modern grey school building with classrooms no different from those of an international school. Colourful geometrical designs line the floor of the building
which houses the new community school at the (...)
Egypt is known for its rich cultivated land, and Egyptians have known how to grow crops efficiently on it since ancient times. During the time of the ancient Egyptians, people lived on the banks of the Nile growing crops like wheat and barley, along (...)
Finding suitable clothes can mean spending a long day at the mall for anyone, but what if there is nothing suitable in any shop at all?
This is what Nesma Yehia, 20, has been going through all her life as a young woman of shorter stature. A mass (...)
Cairo is known as the city that never sleeps. However, this maybe about to change after a cabinet decision was made a week ago to approve a proposal by the Ministry of Local Development setting the closing hours for shops, workshops, restaurants and (...)
New terms relating to the Internet and social media have been circulating for some time, including “influencer” and many more, with an Internet influencer being an individual who can affect change in society through activities on the Internet, (...)
After the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, people were advised by their doctors to use hand sanitisers and to wash their hands regularly to avoid catching the disease. However, the excessive use of chemicals on the skin can cause skin (...)
Al-Azhar Islamic Research Academy (AIRA) has launched a campaign to fight Islamophobia. “The Islam they do not know”will be on Al-Azhar's official portal in English and its social media website accounts, includingFacebook, Twitterand (...)
Many stay-at-home mothers in Egypt were working women before they became mothers and had to quit their jobs to be able to raise their children. Many would also like to be able to work part-time again.
Asmaa Al-Shimi is the stay-at-home mother of two (...)
With financial burdens increasing for many in Egypt due to circumstances that began earlier with the floatation of the Egyptian pound and then extended to the Covid-19 pandemic, getting married has become more complicated even for the country's (...)
Most children are given kites by their parents, and even adults fly kites on various occasions, especially on the beach during the summer holidays.
Given the current coronavirus lockdown, though this is now easing, beaches and parks in Egypt are (...)
In a narrow alley in Omraniya district in the governorate of Giza is a small oriental café of four tables. At 1pm, there is only one patron while in the pre-coronavirus days the café would have been packed.
The scene is the same in other cafés after (...)
To learn the art of ballet dancing, a student usually starts training in the early stages of life. It normally also requires a strict diet to be fit enough to stand on tiptoes and to dance. However, Samar Ekladious, the owner of the Cairo fitness (...)
The usually busy streets of Cairo were exceptionally quiet after the curfew was imposed on 25 March as part of government efforts to contain the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic that started in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 and has now spread (...)
Egypt's Fund for Drug Control and Treatment of Addiction (FDCTA), affiliated to the Ministry of Social Solidarity, recently took part in the 63rd session of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) which took place in Vienna, Austria, (...)
In rural areas in Egypt, some farmers still misuse or overuse pesticides on agricultural land, in some cases even using old pesticide containers at home to store food and water.
In order to help farmers to handle pesticides safely, the United (...)
Fintechs, or companies that offer financial solutions through technology such as mobile applications, are relatively new to Egypt, and as a result the groundwork for their operations is not as clearly defined as is that for traditional (...)
Medicines are essential products to many, but like some other imported commodities they became much more expensive after the 2016 floatation of the Egyptian pound. The prices of some medicines have doubled if not tripled over recent years, making (...)
With the constant congestion on the streets of Cairo, there have been few serious attempts to overcome the problem by raising awareness of the benefits of using bicycles. This would be an environmentally friendly solution that could solve some of (...)
In a lecture organised by writer Fayez Farah at the Young Men's Christian Association in Cairo recently, the Deputy Editor of Al-Akhbar newspaper Mahmoud Atteya, who is also a psychologist, outlined 16 ways of thinking that you should avoid in order (...)
More and more governmental and non-governmental initiatives in Egypt have started to make use of the country's unwanted waste by producing useful objects out of it, including furniture and buildings, and campaigning against the use of one-use (...)
Cairo grandmother Amal Rashad is an amateur puppet-maker who decided to do something unique for her grandchildren by presenting them with not only handmade presents in the shape of the puppets she makes, but also by helping to teach them through the (...)
Young entrepreneurs had the opportunity to join a series of workshops on everything from marketing and branding to legal advice in Cairo last weekend, helping them to gain the knowledge they need to start their own businesses.
The workshops were (...)
