Author: Jasmine Mehna
Discover Egypt’s Wadi El-Assiuty Nature Reserve, a living desert museum preserving rare wildlife, fossils, plants, and biodiversity in Upper Egypt.
How modern technology is silencing centuries-old Egyptian folk music traditions in rural communities
Meet the Upper Egypt artisan hand-crafting religious sculptures for Coptic Christian homes and churches across Egypt
A promised urban coordination committee remains inactive while historic buildings fall and architectural chaos spreads across one of Egypt’s oldest governorates
The streets of Asyut glitter with Christmas lights and decorations, but the real transformation is invisible. This traditionally conservative city in southern Egypt has turned a Christian holiday into a shared celebration that unites Muslims and Copts.
In a narrow street amid historic shops in the Al-Ataba Al-Zarqa in western Assiut, the Yousfi Mosque stood tall. Perhaps not many people know its historical value as the second oldest mosque in Assiut after the Umayyad Mosque. Its history dates back nearly 400 years, yet its name was not included in lists of historical monuments, nor did it ever appear on tourist maps. Today, however, its granite pillars lie broken on the ground after being demolished in an incident whose true causes remain unclear. The demolition of the mosque and the shock of the locals The mosque was likely…