Parade participants toss candy out the window at the “Cairo Days” weekend celebration. (Photo by Madeline Scarborough) CAIRO — As vaccines for COVID-19 have become widely available with restrictions ...

Cairo is one of the largest cities on Earth — and one of the most strained. Extreme air pollution, relentless traffic, water ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Like thousands of other people in Cairo, Ashraf Ali, 33, has lived his whole life on a downtown roof. Seven floors above the dirt and din of Cairo's streets, he enjoys a cool ...

One day last February, near Cairo International Airport, I saw hundreds of people gathered around a tree beside an army watchtower. The crowd spilled into the road, stopping traffic, and drivers got ...

For decades, an affordable housing shortage in Cairo, one of the largest cities in the world, has resulted in hundreds of families moving into the cemeteries. Photojournalist Tamara Abdul Hadi went ...

Monte Ellis’s whole world is being uprooted. “They’re just forcing us out,” he says, as he watches his 11-year old sister, Ashay, at what passes for a playground in the battered McBride Housing ...

CAIRO — Cairo Police Sgt. Tommy Gainous was awarded the Life Saving Commendation on Monday night for his actions on Aug. 13. According to the citation and a police report from the incident, Gainous ...

Eighteen million people live in Cairo. They produce 13,000 tons of garbage every day, and they have no waste disposal system. Ew. Winner of the Al Gore Reel Current award for film, Garbage Dreams ...

Naguib Mahfouz, the cafe denizen who became the first Arab author to be awarded the Nobel Prize in literature -- for novels that evoked the scent, color and texture of life in the streets of his ...

Aug. 24—CAIRO — Cairo Police Sgt. Tommy Gainous was awarded the Life Saving Commendation on Monday night for his actions on Aug. 13. According to the citation and a police report from the incident, ...