history

History is a fickle mistress, especially when it comes to wars. For the most part, the winners are the ones…

From rubber-soled footwear in the 1830s to a spike running shoe in the 1860s and luxury creations by designers Christian…

Folklore calls Yemen the cradle of the Arabs but its ancient heritage is being destroyed as the Arab world's most…

Khedive Abbas Helmy II was crowned on this day in 1892. Helmy--the last khedive, or viceroy, of Egypt and Sudan…

The crisp, experimental, semi-fictional documentary, “Logical Revolts,” was shot in late 2011 and early 2012 in downtown Cairo, Port Said…

A government censorship agency banned a book. Two days later, it revoked the ban. Should we be thankful that the…

Egypt's Ministry of State for Antiquities requested the sum of LE22,000 from the producers of "Sound from the Hallways", a…

Visitors to the “Lost Gods” exhibition, currently showing at Darb 1718, are asked to dig through leather baskets of coarse…

In the years leading up to January 2011, Egypt’s past often appeared as an admonishment to the present. While their…

A few weeks ago, Egypt’s transport minister opened the new Cairo train station, also known as Ramses Station or Bab…