The Director of the Russian Cultural Center in Egypt ... there are 8,000 mosques in his country for about 20 million Muslims. What are the center’s most prominent new cultural activities? Next week, ...

Egypt's legendary film actor Omar Sharif was buried Sunday in Cairo following a funeral at Cairo's Mushir Tantawi Mosque in New Cairo. Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported The funeral ...

Along with museums, there are plenty of contemporary art galleries in Cairo, many of which are in Zamalek on Gezira island in ...

In ancient Egypt, paint was sourced from minerals, such as ocre, that were then ground into a powder, according to research ...

By Amelia Nierenberg A blaze that killed at least 41 at a church in greater Cairo caused anguish among ... tensions in the cloistered world of Egypt’s ancient desert monasteries.

The sword was found among mudbrick structures, including military barracks and storage rooms for weapons and provisions, at ...

This week on Babel, Jon Alterman speaks with Hussein Ibish about popular mobilization across the Middle East since October ...

A strike Friday on a suburb of Lebanon’s capital killed Ibrahim Aqil, a prominent Hezbollah leader, along with other senior ...

A 500-year-old Lodi-era mosque in Agra's Sikandra area collapsed after three days of heavy rain. Constructed with Kakaiya bricks and lime, it was an important heritage site but lacked conservation ...

Agra: A 500-year-old three-domed mosque of the Lodi-era in Sikandra area of Agra completely collapsed on Saturday following incessant rain for three consecutive days in the district. Local ...

Ramses the Great is credited with expanding Egypt's reach as far as modern Syria to the east and Sudan to the south.