Half a century after her death, Umm Kulthum's singular voice still echoes through busy streets in Egypt, across time-worn ...

CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Palestinian militant group Hamas announced the names on Friday of four Israeli female soldier hostages to be released in exchange for Palestinian prisoners in the second ...

Half a century after her death, Um Kalthoum's singular voice still echoes through busy streets in Egypt, across time-worn cafes in Iraq, and in millions of homes from Morocco to Oman.

An Israeli official said Wednesday that Hamas will release three Israelis, including two women and an 80-year-old man, and ...

But below Cairo's congested streets, the metro system is clean ... Also, if you're a woman traveling alone or with other women, consider boarding the middle cars, which are reserved for women ...

Like all the Sudanese women who the BBC spoke to about their ... Salma tells the BBC she was already living in Cairo, in Egypt, with her husband and three children when the Sudanese civil war ...

The dismantling of the US Agency for International Development will be felt strongly across the Middle East, where programmes ...

One day in Cairo I encountered two young Muslim women in head scarves standing in ... snaking lines along Lourdes’s narrow streets, flanked by dozens of religious curio shops.

The woman was subsequently told that her son had ... Giulio Regeni, a 28-year-old Italian Cambridge university doctoral researcher into Cairo street unions, was allegedly tortured to death between ...

Laila Soueif is a mathematician, a university professor, a political activist. But as she slumped in a folding chair outside ...

The small, but vibrant, community of Greeks, with roots deep in history, remains in the Egyptian capital of Cairo to this day.