During the pandemic, catapulted by a general ennui and reminders that I was somehow thrown into further...

“Do you live inside pyramids?” “How is pork different from any other meat?” “What do you mean...

Before the start of nearly every week, my mom picks up her phone and looks through the...

Freedom of belief is only true freedom of belief when it’s fashionable. It’s the take-off point for...

“In the year 1995, Hamid El-Shaeri decided to release a song called ‘Qeshr El Bondoq Yah’. Around...

Fresh out of my bachelor’s degree, I found myself at the Cairo branch of a multinational company,...

Some people are nomadic for a short period of time, while some for years, months, or even...

He was visibly shaken as he walked up to the door. A cheap knock-off Rolex and a...

I recall walking into the Mauritshuis in the Hague – a Dutch museum, tempered by old architecture...

Diving into creating the Egyptian Streets Podcast for the first time, I had only done a few...

TW: article contains the subject of abortions, and pregnancy. I can still feel how the air left...

Growing up in an unwelcoming city for women with strict parents, I never developed a sense of...

Like every Ramadan, the Egyptian television industry has wheeled out the usual tray of saccharine treats, the...

On Monday 9 March 2021, a video of a man assaulting a young girl went viral. The...

Pioneering Egyptian feminist and human rights advocate, prolific author, novelist, physician and psychologist Nawal El Saadawi passed...

It was a Wednesday evening, a little over 10 days ago, when Sarah Everard, a 33-year-old marketing...

Being a woman in Egypt indicates that you most probably experienced at least one of the following:...