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Wander Through Fantasy Worlds with this Egyptian Photographer’s Dreamy Online...
Flower-adorned backgrounds that seem to create a fairytale-like atmosphere, vintage feels and fantasy-like worlds are what make up 32-year-old Menna Hossam’s magical online photoshoots. The young...
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In Photos: Egypt’s Queer History
Egyptian women dressed in men’s attire in the first half of the 20th century. (Photo: Dr. Lucie Ryzova) Egyptian history spans thousands of years and its human landscape throughout has always reflected...
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In Photos: Traveling Through Time with Vintage Maps of Egypt & Cairo
Maps can be a fascinating gateway to how extensively things change with time. A lot of the time, people always make remarks of how much Egypt has changed, or how beautiful it was in the past, and we...
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In Photos: Lebanon’s Rightful Outrage Is Greater than the Beirut Blast
Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020 (photo: Hussein Malla/AP) Lebanon has been in a state of heightened tensions and revolt for the past five years. The unrest started with Beirut’s 2015 waste...
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Egyptian High School and College Grads Reconcile with their Alternative...
Friends choose to celebrate graduation alternatively. Around the world, high school and college graduates have had their celebrations halted because of the COVID-19 precautions. In universities like...
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In Photos: Damietta’s Ras el Bar, The Enchanting Coastal Resort Where the...
The old Ras el Bar Lighthouse and Pier. Image by Omar Salah Hassan. Nestled at the very peak of Egypt’s Damietta governorate lies a lesser known coastal gem by the name of Ras el Bar, which roughly...
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In Photos: Bridges, Museums, Building Renovations and Egypt’s Recent...
Renovated buildings in downtown Cairo. Image source unknown. From bridges to buildings and roads to entirely new cities… Egypt has been avidly working on a number of renovations as well as new...
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These Magnetic Illustrations Showcase the Diverse Talent of Young Egyptian...
Illustrations by Omar Gamal, Bassem Elish, Mostafa al-Agami (left to right). Much like the world of art in its general sense, the world of illustration – which falls under the world of art – is in and...
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In Photos: Egyptian Adventurers Kayak the Length of the Nile
Omar Galla and Omar Hossam at Ras El Bar, the last stop on their journey along the Nile River in Egypt, which started in Abu Simbel last month (photo: Instagram/Omar Galla) Setting off last month,...
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In Photos: Arabic Typography in Egypt Through The Ages
From Abdelaziz El Rifai’s Quran Mus’haf. Photo from TYPE Lab Historian Mohamed Hasan’s Book. Arabic typography is one of the simplest and simultaneously most complex forms of art. The language’s...
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