This article is part of Al-Masry Al-Youm's weekly “Endangered Species” series, covering Egypt's endangered flora and fauna.
Irresponsible diving, overfishing and waste disposal, together with climate change, represent a serious threat to one of (...)
Egyptian women's organizations announced Saturday the reestablishment of the Egyptian Feminist Union, a group that dates back to 1923 when it was originally founded by activist Hoda Shaarawy.
Former Chilean president and head of UN Women Michelle (...)
Children and young people are extremely vulnerable when a natural disaster strikes. When an earthquake hit Haiti last year, 80 percent of the schools in Port-au-Prince where destroyed or severely damaged, and when an earthquake hit China in 2008, (...)
Tahrir Square is more of a center point in Cairo than it ever was before. On the weekends, people gather around the square to speak and listen - working out the problems the country faces today. At least six streets pass through Tahrir Square, one (...)
People from different religious backgrounds living side by side has been a challenge in Egypt, as well as many places, for ages.
In India, Europe and the US so-called multifaith spaces have had some success creating shared spaces where people can (...)
If you have ever visited Rome, Venice or Florence during the summer you might have gotten the impression that Italians had fled their country in order to make room for the Americans, Swedes, Germans and Japanese who fill the streets with their brand (...)
This Friday, Ukrainians will be dancing in Kiev's main square while students in the Dominican Republic will paint the country's first ever bike lane. The Egyptians won't be outdone: they are planning to cycle, walk or roller-skate under the slogan (...)
The dismantlement of an international mummy and artifact smuggling ring by US authorities in July raised alarms about the status of stolen Egyptian artifacts in transnational black markets.
The daily newspaper Metro-New York recently reported that (...)
In Scandinavia - a region that includes Norway, Sweden and Denmark - Muslims are a minority and there are no official holidays to mark Eid al-Fitr. Scandinavia is also short on Middle Eastern cuisine, and mosques, while present, are not in abundance (...)