The Bibliotheca Alexandrina has started a project to document the history of the Egyptian left, as a part of a bigger drive to document Egypt's modern and contemporary history, according to a press release distributed by the BA.

Egypt's antiquities ministry has launched a competition on its Facebook page to select a “piece of the month” from thirteen different ancient Egyptian artefacts from the collections of the Egyptian Museum.

Efforts to find a drug that may slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease saw a glimmer of hope this week in a small trial using an experimental treatment.

Tarabband (a word game on tarab and band, tarab meaning “ecstasy through music”) was formed in 2007 by Iraq-born lead singer and saz player Nadin Al-Khalidi, who came to Sweden as a refugee in 2002.

Clash, the highly anticipated film by Egyptian director Mohamed Diab, was released in Egyptian cinemas on 27 July.

Egyptian films Nawara, Dry Hot Summer and We Have Never Been Kids scooped up top awards at Algeria’s ninth Oran Arab Film Festival, which ran between 20 and 27 July.

All diving and water sports were suspended in the Red Sea resort cities of Hurghada and El-Gouna Thursday due to unstable and bad weather conditions, Egyptian news websites reported.

Two Hollywood stars, Tom Hanks and Daniel Craig, have sent letters of congratulation to director Mohammed Diab on the occasion of the long-awaited Egyptian release of film "Eshtibak" (Clash, 2016).

It was a warm evening with a cool wind occasionally making its way to the River Hall of at El Sawy Culturewheel, where on 25 July, a band consisting of brass players performed to a small and enthusiastic crowd of listeners.

The recently-appointed Israeli ambassador to Egypt David Goverin visited on Tuesday famous Jewish synagogues in Cairo with the Israeli embassy staff, the embassy announced on Wednesday.

Part of a network of "walls" documenting in images the memory of the city, the Danish-Egyptian Dialogue Institute's (DEDI) Sanduq El-Dunia hosts a collection of personal and public images showing Cairo's daily life and landscape, its memory and heritage.

The Ice Bucket Challenge that went viral in 2014 has funded an important scientific gene discovery in the progressive neurodegenerative disease ALS, the ALS Association says.

When it comes to height, Dutch men and Latvian women tower over all other nationalities, a study reveals.

Although many previous studies have shown that too much sedentary time increases the risk of a variety of diseases, including type 2 diabetes, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, heart disease, stroke, and high blood pressure, as well as contributing to an increase in waist measurement and an increased mortality risk, until now there was no number attached to the amount of time an individual could be sedentary for before it begins to have a negative effect on health.

Renowned Egyptian film director, Mohamed Khan, died Tuesday morning at the age of 73 in a Maadi hospital, Ahram Arabic news website reported.

Syrian opposition groups have taken advantage of a global Pokemon craze to draw the world's attention to the plight of children caught up in the country's five-year civil war.

A leading Egyptian Sunni Muslim cleric has warned against the dangers of playing too much of the wildly popular mobile phone application "Pokemon Go," adding to Mideast religious voices that have sometimes been sterner in their critique of the game.

Saudi Arabia's top clerics have renewed a religious edict that warns against playing Pokemon - this time as a mobile phone application called "Pokemon Go".