All posts tagged "upper egypt"

For millennia, Egypt has been the epicenter of languages that circulated throughout different eras. While some languages...

“Here I found love, peace, and beauty in everything around me,” says Faten Abu Bakr after living...

“ saw him as a lonely guru, reminiscent of Old Testament prophets, promising that the world would...

From the 7th to the 21st of August, the Coptic Orthodox Church celebrates one of its most...

Editor’s note: this article was updated to reflect that the number of injured has risen from 92...

The Egyptian Supreme Council for Media Regulation (SCMR) has officially announced the suspension of popular TV personality...

Egypt’s Public Prosecutor announced earlier today that he is currently considering the possibility of appealing a controversial...

“People in the village would mock me and say, why is she leaving her responsibilities at home...

In April, the World Bank published an article that estimated that the COVID-19 could around 49 million...

The River Nile winds its way through Egypt, from South to North, but it is said that...

Earlier this month, Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and the Ministry of Culture announced that they...

Last year, Raghda Hassan, coming from Upper Egypt’s Beni Suef, was getting ready to travel to Cairo...

“Pardon the men cannot live here .. The village is for divorced and widowed women only,” is...

Upper Egypt is one of Egypt’s most under-resourced and underdeveloped regions, which puts a great strain on...

Among Egypt’s Christian community, the vast majority are Orthodox Coptic Christians. Evangelical Christians constitute only a small...

I have been lucky enough to travel down the Nile twice, once with my parents and the...

Upper Egypt’s Aswan has been named one of the ten cities that showed “exemplary progress and commitment...