Featuring Nadah El Shazly’s stargazed dream pop, Teether & Kuya Neil’s fusion of hip-hop with ‘ethnic suburban Australiana’, and French avant pop legends Stereolab
Jun 25, 2025
Ask the Girls in Cairo, directed by JP Micallef, follows a community of young women and girls as they defy patriarchal expectations in pursuit of their passions
Feb 07, 2025
The author of If We Burn, a new book on the political uprisings of the 2010s, discusses why so many of them led to the opposite of what their participants intended
Oct 03, 2023
Accusations of greenwashing have been levelled at COP27 – but Egypt’s youth are remaining optimistic
Nov 10, 2022
After the Kardashian snapped a photo in front of the ancient artefact at the 2018 Met Gala, detectives were able to end a five-year search for the missing Egyptian coffin
Oct 21, 2021
Ayten Amin discusses her tender coming-of-age drama, which explores sisterhood, tragedy, and the conflicting dualities of reality and social media
Sep 08, 2021
The shape-shifting Egyptian-Italian musician has composed for fashion world titans from Gucci to Prada, but her Burn To Make It Glow EP is testament to a multifaceted artist approaching her wildest, truest form
Apr 12, 2021
Five women have been sentenced to two years in prison and fined £15,000 each for videos posted to their social media accounts
Aug 18, 2020
The group of influencers were individually convicted after a court considered their content to be ‘violating public morals’
Aug 04, 2020
‘Mr Musk, we are waiting for you’
Aug 03, 2020
A photographer’s search for identity coincides with that of her parents’ home country – as her work goes on display in London, she shares her memories of the Arab Spring
Apr 13, 2016
The authorities have accused Reda el-Fouly of disrupting morality and ordered the arrest of her boyfriend
May 26, 2015
Border forces have seized 400 copies of a photography book that features protest street art
Feb 19, 2015
Plus: we reported on underground music scenes in Belgrade and Cairo, Eva Green's sexy Sin City poster was banned and Tom Ford declared Rihanna's Instagram more valuable than reviews
May 30, 2014
As Egypt votes its army back into to power, leading lights of the electro shaabi scene tell us why music is the only thing left young people can trust
May 29, 2014
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