As summer 2026 ends, Ras El-Bar’s days as a working-class resort may be numbered. As rents climb and luxury compounds rise, families are being squeezed into a single day by the sea
Long before technical fixes, Egypt’s cotton boom broke natural nutrient cycles, plunging fields into disease and forcing decades of grueling hand labor on rural children.
Behind frozen greens in Israeli markets lies a 650% surge in Egyptian exporters: a vast network stretching from hidden Delta hamlets to active shipping lanes.
Recent Gulf deals have revived fears over Egyptian sovereignty, but the true risks lie in financial and regulatory details rather than loss of territory.
From Israeli border restrictions to bombed distribution points, the journey of humanitarian aid across the Gaza Strip leaves thousands of unlisted families competing for survival.
Abu Bakr Shawky’s “Stories” traces one Egyptian family from 1967 to 1984, tracking love, war, prices and Zamalek in a slow, aching portrait of ordinary survival.
Weak and selective translations of Arabic literature can distort its richness, marginalize its global presence and reinforce Western stereotypes of Arab society.
As Egypt’s crisis deepens, illness is being redistributed by class: the poor vanish from hospitals and statistics, while the newly poor fill “free” clinics that no longer are.
Technologically speaking, the internet could easily stream the World Cup to everyone at once. Broadcasters make sure it doesn't — and piracy fills the gap, at a price of its own.
Egypt is drafting a bill on children's social media use; the real test is whether it disciplines platforms or entrenches mass surveillance capabilities.