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Sports
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Omni sports
1/22/2023 11:31:15 AM
Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina blew the Australian Open women's draw wide open by beating red-hot favourite Iga Swiatek in straight sets on Sunday before declaring: "I can be number one."
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World
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Africa
1/21/2023 2:20:00 PM
Burkina Faso's army has freed 66 women and children who were abducted earlier this month by Islamic extremists while gathering food in the country's northern Sahel region, according to a state television report Friday.
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Sports
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Omni sports
1/21/2023 11:22:28 AM
Hard-hitting Aryna Sabalenka burnished her Australian Open title credentials on Saturday as she barrelled into the last 16 along with several other women's seeds.
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World
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International
1/17/2023 12:28:23 PM
At least three leading international aid agencies have partially resumed life-saving work in Afghanistan, after assurances from the Taliban authorities that Afghan women can continue to work in the health sector.
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Life & Style
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Style
1/16/2023 1:03:48 PM
Under the Taliban, the mannequins in women’s dress shops across the Afghan capital of Kabul are a haunting sight, their heads cloaked in cloth sacks or wrapped in black plastic bags.
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Sports
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Omni sports
1/15/2023 10:39:54 AM
Rafael Nadal opens his Australian Open title defence Monday feeling vulnerable and against a dangerous young opponent, with women's top seed Iga Swiatek also facing a tricky encounter as she targets a maiden crown.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
1/12/2023 12:53:43 PM
Two women's rights advocacy bodies have filed complaints against Egyptian TV anchor Yasmine Ezz over what they described as "regressive" content she presents at her TV show Talks of People (Kalam Al-Nass), which is aired daily on Saudi TV satellite channel MBC Masr and discusses social issues.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
1/11/2023 4:39:04 PM
Chairwoman of the Egyptian Centre for Women's Rights (ECWR) Nehad Abul-Qomsan filed a complaint to public prosecution on Wednesday against television anchor Yasmine Ezz for promoting violence against women.
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Sports
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Omni sports
1/11/2023 10:47:22 AM
Novak Djokovic and women's world number two Ons Jabeur were named Wednesday on the first executive committee of the controversial Professional Tennis Players Association (PTPA).
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Sports
1/10/2023 10:28:37 PM
Egypt’s sports women are looking forward to the new year. Inas Mazhar highlights their past and future
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Arts & Culture
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Visual Art
1/10/2023 11:44:02 AM
The seventh edition of My Favorite Things, an exhibition held at the Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art in downtown Cairo will feature works by 20 female artists
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World
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International
1/10/2023 11:42:50 AM
Pope Francis on Monday broke his silence on the nationwide protests convulsing Iran, denouncing the recourse to the death penalty there and seemingly legitimizing the rallies as demonstrations "demanding greater respect for the dignity of women.''
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
1/9/2023 3:13:21 PM
Prominent Egyptian journalist and media personality has been unveiled as the second honouree at the upcoming seventh edition of the Aswan International Women Film Festival (AIWFF).
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World
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Region
1/9/2023 12:45:44 PM
Iran has sentenced to death three more people, accused of killing three members of the security forces during the protests triggered by Mahsa Amini's death, the judiciary said Monday.
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Arts & Culture
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Music
1/8/2023 12:26:30 PM
Laser beams illuminate a darkened restaurant turned dance hall in Cairo as revellers move to thumping beats from female DJs -- part of a generation of women shaking up Egypt's underground electronic music scene.
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World
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International
1/7/2023 8:09:16 PM
A top U.N. envoy met with the Taliban-led Afghan government’s higher education minister on Saturday to discuss the ban on women attending universities. Markus Potzel is the first international official to meet with him since the ban was introduced last month.
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World
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International
1/7/2023 12:07:19 PM
Kurdish groups from around France and Europe are marching in Paris on Saturday to show their anger over the unresolved killing of three Kurdish women activists in the French capital 10 years ago.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
1/2/2023 6:19:09 PM
A Port Said criminal court issued a death sentence to a man who killed his ex-fiancee, Kholoud El-Said, 20, in her home last October in the Suez Canal city in yet another public-outrage-inducing case of men murdering women for rejecting them.
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World
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Region
1/2/2023 4:58:02 PM
Iranian police have resumed warnings that women must wear mandatory headscarves even in cars, media reported Monday, as unrest continues following the death of Mahsa Amini.
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World
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International
1/1/2023 4:02:44 PM
A senior U.N. official in Afghanistan met on Sunday the deputy prime minister of the Taliban-led government to discuss a ban on women working for non-governmental groups that Afghan authorities have announced in a series of measures rolling back women's rights.
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