CAIRO, July 22 (Reuters) - A group of Egyptian women gather at an abandoned park in a Cairo suburb once a week, climbing walls and jumping around in the strenuous physical discipline known as Parkour, ...

President el-Sisi suggests women watch more realistic TV, recommends 8-hour live streams of men ignoring them.

In Egypt, Saturday nights are for staying in — the workweek starts on Sunday. But for the members of CaiRollers, Egypt's first all-female roller derby team, it's for skating. The team's 20 members ...

In 1799, the French artist Vivant Denon, accompanying a team of scientists traveling to Egypt with Napoleon (who excused his invasion with the logic that he was bringing democracy to the Arabs) was ...

This past June 30-year-old Egyptian socialist, writer, and lesbian activist Sarah Hegazi committed suicide in Canada. Her last Instagram photo showed her laying under a blue sky with the words "The ...

The position of women in the New Kingdom was based on a unique combination of ancient tradition and modern sophistication. The opportunities available to most women were limited by centuries of ...

The Egyptian Constitution says women and men are equal. And, although Egypt is relatively secular and progressive, women still struggle to assert their rights. The latest battlefield: traveling ...

In Egypt, a female Cabinet minister has emerged as the driving force behind a crackdown on U.S.-funded pro-democracy groups. The attacks of Faiza Aboul Naga — a holdover from the regime of ousted ...

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Sports management scholars traveled to Egypt over spring break to study women's sports in Muslim society.When you think of Egypt, what comes to mind? Probably not sports. The same can be said about ...

CAIRO, Egypt - Nashwa Youssef and her husband Sherif have been following every twist and turn amid the turmoil in the wake of the ouster of Egypt’s democratically elected president. “The anxiety is ...

A young, British woman who brought hundreds of painkillers into Egypt may face the death penalty, The Guardian reports. Laura Plummer was detained on October 9, after 290 tramadol tablets—a highly ...