Society

One or none! Why Egyptians are having fewer babies

Faced with inflation and economic strain, more Egyptians are choosing smaller families—or none at all—reshaping the country’s population growth trajectory.

Shimaa Elkholy_ 1-10-2025

One or none! Why Egyptians are having fewer babies

Egypt leads the world in C-sections, but can the tide be turned?

Egypt’s health ministry launches a plan to curb unnecessary C-sections through oversight, awareness, and digitization amid world-leading rates of the surgery, but will it work?

Sara El-Hareth_ 28-9-2025

Egypt leads the world in C-sections, but can the tide be turned?

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Citizenship during summer holidays

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Summer camps at mosques and churches dominate children’s holidays, leaving few secular alternatives. Families turn to faith spaces as state cultural centers fade.

Sara El-Hareth_ 8-9-2025

Citizenship during summer holidays

The kuttab: An alternative to the state education system?

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As Egypt’s public schools falter, the government turns to the kuttab—a centuries-old Quranic school model—as a surprising fix for a deepening education crisis.

Ahmed Aly_ 19-8-2025

The kuttab: An alternative to the state education system?

A delayed smile from Gaza

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Palestinian women who survived Israeli airstrikes in Gaza face disfigurement, trauma, and delayed treatment as they fight to reclaim their bodies—and their identities.

Diana Elmaghrabi_ 17-8-2025

A delayed smile from Gaza

Women, TikTok, and the crime of survival in Egypt

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In Egypt, poor women turn to farm work and TikTok to survive. Instead of protection, they face arrests, shaming, and laws that criminalize their lives.

Omaima Emad_ 11-8-2025

Women, TikTok, and the crime of survival in Egypt

‘21 days to justice’: How Egypt’s law fails abused wives

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When the law stays silent, injustice speaks loudest. In Egypt, survivors like Asmaa face broken systems and archaic laws that protect abusers more than the abused.

Fatma El-Zahraa Badawy_ 12-7-2025

‘21 days to justice’: How Egypt’s law fails abused wives

The long road to divorce for Coptic women

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A murder sparks renewed focus on Egypt’s Coptic divorce crisis, where church control, outdated laws, and state inaction leave women trapped in violent marriages.

Sara Allam Shaltout_ 29-6-2025

The long road to divorce for Coptic women

Egypt’s educational promise falters for stranded Syrian students

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Hundreds of Syrian students are locked out of Egypt mid-degree as visa delays and new entry rules derail academic dreams and drain families of tuition and housing costs.

Sara El-Hareth_ 5-6-2025

Egypt’s educational promise falters for stranded Syrian students

Applied Technology Schools: New path to unemployment

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When Egypt’s promise of easy jobs meets the reality of broken dreams: inside the applied tech schools trapping students in a maze of promises they can’t escape.

Doaa Emam_ 2-6-2025

Applied Technology Schools: New path to unemployment

Freelance journalists: professionals or impostors?

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Young freelancers speak out about working as journalists in Egypt under legal threat, weak protections, and shrinking pay

Yousef Okail_ 1-6-2025

Freelance journalists: professionals or impostors?

Glut of medical graduates, but no jobs to fill

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Egypt's decision to end mandatory medical placements leaves graduates in limbo. Despite a saturated market, new dentistry, pharmacy, and physical therapy faculties are opening.

Ahmed Aly_ 1-6-2025

Glut of medical graduates, but no jobs to fill

In student dorms, inflation is being served three times a day

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Amid soaring inflation, university students face shrinking dorm meals and rising costs, forcing many to work or buy food outside just to stay nourished.

Omar Samy_ 11-5-2025

In student dorms, inflation is being served three times a day

The more I see of people, the more I like dogs

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A husky’s killing in rural Egypt goes viral exposing a deeper crisis of empathy, justice, and how a nation treats its most vulnerable: the animals on its streets.

Menna Sharafeldeen_ 8-5-2025

The more I see of people, the more I like dogs

The church of the 'Top Notch'

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At Sunday school, faith once brought kids together. Now, class divides them by uniform, accent, and trip schedule.

Faten Sobhi_ 2-5-2025

The church of the 'Top Notch'

The untold story of captive animals in Egypt

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In Egypt's circuses and zoos, applause drowns out a dark truth. Behind the animal tricks lies a vast, unseen world of suffering and abuse.

Ahmed Aly_ 1-5-2025

The untold story of captive animals in Egypt

Raising a bully? The struggle to curb childhood abuse in schools

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70% of Egyptian kids face bullying, yet schools lack solutions. Despite laws, enforcement lags as families and institutions struggle to break the cycle of abuse

Hagar Othman_ 22-4-2025

Raising a bully? The struggle to curb childhood abuse in schools

Divorced, not done! Why I'll wear a white dress in my wedding

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Divorced women face stigma for remarrying, wearing white, or celebrating love again. Yet some resist, reclaiming love and celebration on their own terms.

Hanan El-Gohary_ 20-4-2025

Divorced, not done! Why I'll wear a white dress in my wedding