CAIRO (AP) — Nearly 100 women Tuesday became the first female judges to join Egypt’s State Council, one of the country’s main judicial bodies. The 98 women were sworn in before the council’s chief ...

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 ...

Citing high rates of sexual harassment and female genital mutilation, a new survey finds that women in Egypt face the worst treatment in any Arab country. Other countries with high levels of unrest — ...

Ahmed el Fiky is a young author residing in Cairo, Egypt. His first book, Operation 9/11, written as a 24 year old, investigated the 9/11 attacks and the ensuing war on Iraq. His painstakingly ...

Organizers say it reflects women's growth within the Mideast business community. The Women Economic Forum, an annual global business conference for women held in India since 2015, moves to the Middle ...

Before I moved to Egypt in 2011, I had a picture of the country in my mind. It was full of accomplished women, I imagined, and was progressive and cosmopolitan in ways that many Western observers didn ...

YouTube is facilitating the persecution of women and girls the Egyptian state deems too immodest by rewarding prominent male influencers whose inciting videos—viewed millions of times—target the very ...

When getting from Point A to Point B involves strategizing over which route is least likely to invite harassment, you know you’re a woman. And in countries like Egypt, where an estimated 99.3 percent ...

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 ...

LONDON, Nov 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sexual harassment, high rates of female genital cutting and a surge in violence and Islamist feeling after the Arab Spring uprisings have made Egypt the ...

In 2012, Bothaina Kamel became the first woman to run for president in Egypt. She didn't get enough signatures to get on the ballot, but her candidacy became a powerful symbol. It wasn't just because ...