Cairo – Egypt’s first female rally driver, Yara Shalaby, wants to pave the way for women to follow in her footsteps as a race-car driver and crush prejudices in a conservative society.... Read more

Cairo – A lady taxi driver called Um Khaled decides to break the stereotype and drives a 36-tonne lorry.   Um Khaled decided to take the challenge and drive a lorry after overhear... Read more

Paris—I know that one single article will not do justice to highlight his impressive work, but I will do my best to shed as much light as I can on the track record of this contemporary caric... Read more

Cairo – Hoda El-Maraghy is an Egyptian scientist whose name went viral in social media circles, and gone down as one of Egypt’s most brilliant minds living abroad. El-Masrawi, an... Read more

Cairo – A 35-year-old entrepreneur Ahmed Saeed al-Feki has been working hard to make something of himself, launching his own business building a mini-car.     In a village not far from... Read more

Cairo – Profiling “history-making” Lobna Helal: Forbes Middle East profiled deputy central bank governor Lobna Helal, who they picked as the number two most powerful Arab businesswoman... Read more

Cairo – Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz is one of the most prominent writers, not only, in Egypt but also in the whole world. He is regarded as one of the first writers to explore theme... Read more

Kent, Ohio – Egyptian composer and ethnomusicologist Halim El-Dabh passed away on 2 September in his home in Kent, Ohio, his wife Deborah wrote on social media.   In the short obituary... Read more