DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- The pan-Arab broadcaster Al-Jazeera said Sunday that Egyptian authorities ordered the closure of its Cairo news hub overseeing coverage of the country's massive street ...

CAIRO — Egypt has begun making its national archives digitally available on the Internet in Arabic, having last month registered the world's first domain name in Arabic script. The initiative to boost ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT Abdel Fattah al-Sisi inspects Egyptian military units in Suez, in 2023. (photo credit: THE EGYPTIAN ...

The recent clashes in Cairo between peaceful Coptic protestors and Egyptian security forces are only the latest sad example of an old and recurring phenomenon: persecution of native non-Muslim ...

This week we’re learning more about politics and regional issues in Egypt. Eric Trager, the author of Arab Fall: How the Muslim Brotherhood Won and Lost Egypt in 891 Days, is the Esther K. Wagner ...

Among the BBC’s massive budget cuts announced in late January were 650 jobs, the shuttering of approximately 15% of its foreign language services, and, most importantly, severe cuts to Arabic-language ...

THE END of January marks the start of the Cairo International Book Fair, the largest gathering of its kind in the Arab world. Writers and readers from all over the region meet to swap tomes and ...