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
AFP / The National

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

The Nile, Petra, Baghdad ... the region provided some of the most atmospheric settings for the Queen of Crime's works. The murders may have been fictional, but her travels were real

Travel

How a tribal chief's house became a boutique hotel on Egypt's Red Sea

MENA

Gulf states push to break Iran deadlock and reopen Hormuz

Gulf

‘It was a disaster’: Egypt women's team reaches tipping point after Wafcon flop

Football

How burial trends in an Ancient Egyptian tomb changed over hundreds of years

MENA

Egypt erupts in fury over Ethiopia's plans for three more Nile dams

MENA

Israel condemned for obstructing peace effort in Gaza

MENA
The exterior view of the excavated tomb at the Theban Necropolis. Proyecto dos cero nueve / Jose Miguel Barrios Mufrege

How burial trends in an Ancient Egyptian tomb changed over hundreds of years

Placement of mummified bodies inside the Theban Necropolis have symbolic and practical implications

MENA

Egypt erupts in fury over Ethiopia's plans for three more Nile dams

MENA

Israel condemned for obstructing peace effort in Gaza

MENA

Archaeologists may have found Egypt’s lost city of Masn

Culture

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