This neighborhood in southern Cairo is the oldest part of the city, with twisting alleyways and ancient churches that are several centuries older than the ornate mosques of Islamic Cairo.

Ahmed explains that the Zabbaleen descended from farmers who migrated to Cairo from Northern Egypt in the 1940s ... that I visit their local church, the Coptic Church of the Virgin Mary, known ...

The Coptic Synaxar (calendar of the saints) records Tal Basta (4) - about seventy-two miles northeast of Cairo - as the first Egyptian town visited by the Holy Family. According to the vision of ...

The Coptic Museum in Cairo is hosting a special 30-day archaeological exhibition, 'The Saint Knight', in celebration of the ...

Nine people have been killed in two attacks on Coptic Christians in Helwan district, south of Cairo, Egypt's interior ministry has said. Six civilians and a policeman died when a gunman tried to ...

Dozens of people have died after a fire broke out at a church in Egypt, many of them crushed during a desperate scramble to escape. Officials say the number of dead is at least 41, with dozens ...

The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities in collaboration with the US embassy in Cairo and the American Research Centre in ...

There are three lines that converge in the center of the city, and trains carry passengers to attractions like the Egyptian Museum and those found in Coptic Cairo. The metro's third line is ...

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

Al Fostan Al Abyad’ starring Yasmine Raeis and ‘The Brink of Dreams’ will compete at GFF from October 24th to November 1st.