Silenced from Egypt’s religious life, women chanters are returning, reviving a sacred tradition and reclaiming space through ...
In the modern day, we may think of Feminism and equal rights between the sexes as a recent phenomenon, but in Ancient Egypt, ...
More than a millennium before Cleopatra, the female ruler Hatshepsut blazed a trail for powerful women in the ancient ...
Cairo — One week ago, 21-year-old Nayera Ashraf was about to walk through the gates of her university in Egypt's northern city of Mansoura when a colleague approached her and stabbed her several times ...
The Great Pyramid of Giza is the largest of the three pyramids on the Giza plateau and one of the last surviving Seven ...
Dr Abla El Hawary made history on January 12, 2026, becoming the first woman to preside over Egypt's House of Representatives. At 79, she led the opening session, overseeing member oaths and the ...
Every time Amira Mohamed stepped onto the pitch, it was never just a game. For her, and hundreds of Egyptian female footballers, the field was a battlefield – not one against opponents, but against ...
CAIRO (AP) — Nearly 100 women Tuesday became the first female judges to join Egypt’s State Council, one of the country’s main judicial bodies. The 98 women were sworn in before the council’s chief ...
CAIROCAIRO — An Egyptian woman says she’s scored an important legal victory against her country’s inheritance laws, which grant female heirs half of what they grant men. Huda Nasrallah, a Christian ...
Beating, disrobing of veiled woman part of a pattern. Dec. 21, 2011 — -- The Egyptian army and security forces are targeting female protesters, subjecting them to violence, torture, sexual ...
This past June 30-year-old Egyptian socialist, writer, and lesbian activist Sarah Hegazi committed suicide in Canada. Her last Instagram photo showed her laying under a blue sky with the words "The ...
CAIRO (AP) — Waleed Hammad dressed conservatively for his secret mission into the world of sexual harassment and abuse on the streets of Cairo, donning a long tan skirt and sleeved shirt, and at times ...