RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has opened its doors to tourists, but faces huge challenges to train an estimated one million staff needed to operate the sector,...
RIYADH: In Riyadh's old quarter, a small group of Polish holidaymakers exploring the mud-brick Masmak Fort were making history as some of the first...
KHARTOUM: In unprecedented scenes in Khartoum, hundreds of workers in suits and ties alongside their neatly dressed women colleagues have gone on strike to...
CAIRO: Egypt’s first video-streaming app launched this month just in time for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the high season for the television industry,...
HURGHADA, Egypt: In turquoise waters off Egypt’s Red Sea coast, scuba divers ease among delicate pink jellyfish and admire coral. Yet a rebounding...
CAIRO: Standing before a rapt crowd, Ahmed Adel oozes charm with his passionate performance of an Egyptian classic, evoking a romantic nostalgia for Arabic...
CAIRO: Nearly six years after the African Union shut it out in the cold, Egypt will take the organization's helm – and strengthening multilateral powers is...
KAFR AL-DAWAR, Egypt: Lush green fields blanket northern Egypt’s Nile Delta, but the country’s agricultural heartland and its vital freshwater...
CAIRO: Among the poorest of Egypt’s poor, the so-called “zabbaleen” who scavenge through garbage to eke out a living in a Cairo slum...
CAIRO: Treading carefully among his sprawling green plants in the Nile Delta, Egyptian farmer Fatuh Khalifa fills his arms with fluffy white cotton picked by...
SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt: Noor Daoud was the only woman to take to the track in Egypt’s Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, where the Palestinian racer...
CAIRO: Faced with scenes of blood flowing in rubbish-strewn roads and of streets littered with animal entrails, authorities in the Egyptian capital say they...
CAIRO: Police in Egypt are boosting security around churches as Coptic Christians prepare to celebrate Orthodox Christmas Sunday after a year of deadly jihadi...
CAIRO: In Egypt’s eastern desert, roads are being carved across vast expanses of sand where the government is building a new administrative capital, a...