The crowd was dressed in festive galabeyyas, Egyptian tunics. Women wore brightly colored chiffon head scarves, adorned with silver coins; men wore knit caps or red felt tarboosh, the Egyptian ...

Egyptian journalist tops ‘10 Most Urgent’ list of press freedom cases focused on women journalists ...

CAIRO — After Egyptian women stood shoulder to shoulder with men in the protests that toppled Hosni Mubarak, many looked forward to a role in the revolution's next steps. But 15 months later, as ...

Once a week, a group of Egyptian women gathers at an abandoned park in a Cairo, to practice Parkour, while also challenging the country’s conservative social norms. The women have trained every ...

In conservative societies like Egypt's, myths about the female body, including about self-care and sexuality, are very common. For Cairo-based Al-Manassa, Wafaa Khairi talks with Egyptian women ...

A generation of young women in Egypt who have found their voice on social media are challenging the old rules that blamed women when they were attacked by men.

Egypt’s ministry of health has published brief awareness pamphlets on its social media platforms about the virus, noting some of its key symptoms and asking women to schedule routine check-ups.

The country’s resistance to women entering the workforce has kept it from reaping the economic benefits of globalization.

The discrepancies between men's and women's beach volleyball uniforms are hard not to notice, given that women usually compete in bikinis and men play in tank tops and shorts. A question has come ...

In a new success, Egyptian table tennis player Hana Gouda topped the world rankings for women under 19 years old of the International Table Tennis Federation.

The Egyptian women's beach volleyball team turned heads during their first Olympic match in Rio when both players appeared in long-sleeved shirts and full-length leggings.