Egyptian-Danish filmmaker May el-Toukhy won the Golden Lion Award for Best Film for Woman Unknown. Reuters

InterviewVenice Golden Lion winner May el-Toukhy on Woman Unknown and her Egyptian roots

The Danish-Egyptian filmmaker discusses the women behind her Venice Film Festival-winning drama

Film & TV

Danish-Egyptian director May el-Toukhy wins Venice Golden Lion for Woman Unknown

Film & TV

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Egypt sentences TV presenter and 11 others to death in drugs case

MENA

Egypt and China take united stance on Nile water, Palestine and Taiwan

MENA

Chinese military hardware on show in Egypt during President Xi's visit

MENA

CommentBrics and the SCO offer a different vision of global power

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The wreckage of a passenger bus that crashed on the Dahab-Nuweiba road in Egypt's south Sinai region on September 2, 2026. AFP

Ten Jordanians among 22 killed in bus crash in Egypt's south Sinai

Bus overturned on road between Red Sea resorts of Dahab and Nuweiba

MENA

BP starts gas production at Egypt's Fayoum-4 well two years ahead of schedule

MENA

What fans can expect from Shakira at the Pyramids

Music & On-stage

China's Xi Jinping to make first state visit to Egypt in decade

MENA

Questions abound about SpongeBob and his satirical take on Egypt

MENA

InterviewNew mother Gohar aims to dominate squash again - but it will take baby steps

Sport

Dubai's Parkin to expand into Bahrain and Egypt

UAE
Spongebob Egypt. Photo: Supplied
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Questions abound about SpongeBob and his satirical take on Egypt

The cartoon character and his undersea city have been recreated online with a political script - but who's really behind the Facebook groups that started the trend?

MENA

InterviewNew mother Gohar aims to dominate squash again - but it will take baby steps

Sport

Dubai's Parkin to expand into Bahrain and Egypt

UAE

The Middle Eastern journeys that inspired Agatha Christie's greatest mysteries

Travel

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