Egyptian Chronicles

Thursday 2/7/2026 marks the 1000th day following the genocidal war launched by Israel following the 7 October attack. 1000 days passed, and ...

Seen in Downtown Cairo: Before-and-after photos of the Egyptian Railways Engineering Building document the final days of the famous 100-plus...

Happy Easter to all those celebrating today—especially Egyptian and Sudanese Coptic Orthodox Christians, as well as Palestinian and Lebanese...

Ramadan Kareem, It may be wartime, but before we get busy with everything that comes with it, let’s take a short break and watch this brie...

On the occasion of Easter, here is a photo taken during Christmas of Our Lady of Heliopolis Co-Cathedral — also known as the Latin Cathedra...

It is like the last day of Ramadan, and I am really sorry to publish the second part of this post only now. I should have posted earlier i...

A very short break and escape from a war that will be our Karbala moment as a nation and on the eve of the re-inauguration of Al-Sayeda Zein...

Happy Orthodox Easter to all those celebrating it tonight, especially Egyptian Coptic Christians. On this occasion, I would like to share ...

Seen in Cairo on two busy and buzzy two different afternoons weeks apart including Tuesday afternoon, Adly synagogue aka Sha’ar Hashamayim s...

May this Hijri new year bring some peace to many troubled areas in the Muslim world especially in Yemen, Syria, Palestine, Iraq, Libya, Chi...

It is too hard to write this, it is very heavy to write this post. I am waiting for a miracle, for divine intervention to make this stop s...

And we continue our short and quick tour in Hatshepsut Mortuary Temple in Luxor’s Deir El-Bahry in February 2012. You can refresh your m...

This time Kodak Agfa is going to present photos taken from a decade ago and it feels so weird and yet so close!! I know I am lazy but for ...

From a couple of weeks ago, many Egyptians received a notification that their family cemeteries will be demolished as part of the governmen...

In case you do not know, Egypt is on a date on another glitzy ancient Egyptian inspired parade in a few hours. The avenue of the Sphinxes on...

This month does not mark only the centenary of Princess Fawzia Fouad, it is also the centenary of Egypt’s Queen Farida . Queen Farida is by ...

Lately, I have been spending more and more time on Tiktok. I have become addicted to the short video-sharing Chinese media platform that too...

I could not ignore that photo of this lady in a Victorian dress greeting me as I was heading to get my Covid-19 vaccination jabs at Giza’s I...

Here is a small glimpse of  World famous Cairo's Tahrir square after its renovation from the car in April. Tahrir square after renovati...

And because we are in the heart of historical Islamic Cairo, it was not a big surprise to meet a new ancient mosque in the El-Siyada Zeinab ...