The painting actually depicts Tadi Ist, the daughter of one of the high priests of the Pharaoh civilization. Mustafa Waziri, Egypt's Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities ...

Egyptian authorities have detained a Coptic Christian student accused of posting a drawing of Islam's prophet on Facebook that triggered two days of violence in southern Egypt. Gamal Massoud has ...

Khalid is a former foreign correspondent currently writing a book on modern Egypt. In “Sting Like ... five-year period in the life of Muhammad Ali when the heavyweight champion struggled as ...

Muhammad Ali was born in 1769 in Kavala in northern Greece. He was part of the Ottoman army and in the year 1801, his unit was sent, as part of a larger Ottoman force, to re-occupy Egypt following ...

Except he wasn't in Egypt. He was somewhere ... millions as a contractor for the army, though his beginnings couldn't have predicted either reality. Mohamed Ali began working in his father's ...