Copts attend Easter mass at Saint Samaan's Church in Moqattam over the holiday weekend and families picnic at Al-Azhar Park to celebrate Sham el-Nessim, the holiday that marks the beginning…
Egypt’s 2014 constitutional referendum in pictures First day of voting: Tuesday January 14, 2014 Women line up to vote in Mounira, Cairo. Voting papers are stamped by a judge at a…
Coptic Orthodox Christians — who represent the vast majority of the Coptic community in Egypt — celebrated Christmas on Tuesday January 7. The occasion was marked by many celebrations and…
As the year closes, Mada Masr remembers the moments of 2013. Through these images, by photographer Virginie Nguyen, we remember 12 months of tumultuous political events in Egypt, in which violence…
Parkour is an acrobatic sport that involves running and doing tricks in an urban space, while landing with low impact. It appeared in the 1990s in France and videos posted on Youtube helped popularize it…
Virginie Nguyen shares her testimonial and visual documentation of the Ramses violence on August 16, as she was covering it with fellow photographers and journalists. When we arrived in Ramses…
