Amid the drumbeats and celebratory chants of a zaffa, which means a procession or march in Arabic, a couple’s journey into ...

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The modern popular hero has shifted from a champion of justice to a figure driven by aggression, mirroring Egypt’s ...

Meet the mysterious, masked Egyptian star who’s scoring global hits by letting his artistry — not his identity — take center ...

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My sister and I were carrying our Egyptian textbooks on our backs ... Farid and his family's attachment to the Arabic language, Egypt and its culture did not fade for a moment during this period.

This year, for the Cairo International Book Fair, which ran from 23 January to 5 February, Al-Shorouk Publishing released select translations of Kästner’s most celebrated titles, beloved by ...

This year’s UK Banipal Prize for Arabic Translation shows the range and variety of the Arabic literary work now being ...

Islam is the main religion and Arabic is the main language. Even though their rulers and religion has changed over time, you can still see glimpses of the ancient Egyptian civilisations today.

Never at Home, a six-track bilingual Arabic-English collection, is the result of this journey and offers a distinct interpretation of Egyptian pop, shaped through the lens of a self-described “t ...