Um Bassem, a plumber in Cairo, has challenged the rules about women working in male-dominated fields. Why are more women not joining her?
If you live in Cairo and want organic or at least pesticide-free local produce delivered to your home, you’ve actually got quite a few options
Increasing rates of diabetes and heart disease are an inevitable result of a broken food and health system
Family and friends of Ahmed Medhat, a medical student who died this week in Egypt, are certain that he was killed by the police after being arrested from his home.…
Most agree that the state of education in Egypt is dire. There is an over-emphasis on exams and teaching methods are based on learning by rote memorization. In both the…
Tucked behind a coffeehouse in a bustling paper market in downtown Alexandria is Wekalet Behna. It’s an unlikely location for what was once one of the region’s most important film distribution companies. Reopened for two months now, the 12-room apartment hosts a filmmaking unit, cinema archive,…
