Our Cairo correspondent explores the textured history of calligraphy as a victim of ‘creative destruction’ and why its ...

Ancient Egypt looms large in popular culture, from Indiana Jones to The Prince of Egypt. The country is a treasure trove of pyramids, pharaohs, and nods to ancient cats. The country’s location at the ...

A collection of fragmentary, bittersweet vignettes by the late Nobel laureate builds into a pattern, albeit an elusive one ...

In the early 1900s, the center of Cairo was the cultural heart of the city, with an opera house, gardens and elegant hotels ...

Cairo is a place ... An ideal day exploring the city should start at Ibn Tulun Mosque. Built in 876AD, it is the oldest and arguably the most beautiful mosque in Egypt, with 2.5 acres of pointed ...

Modern-day Egyptian adventurer Omar Nok became a social media celebrity – attracting more than 750,000 Instagram followers – as he documented his circuitous 46,239km route from Egypt across a ...

"Unlike its ancient counterpart, the modern ... Jews fled Egypt. The 1956 Suez Crisis accelerated this exodus, with 25,000 of the remaining 45,000 Jews leaving by mid-1957. The Six Day War in ...