The cover of "Egyptian Made: Women, Work, and the Promise of Liberation" beside author Leslie T. Chang. (Courtesy) “Made in Egypt" — those three words increasingly appear on our clothing tags. But ...
*Vertically challenged Egyptians have a new place to shop for clothes, thanks to a 20-year-old student with dwarfism. Budding fashion designer and Mansoura University student Nesma Yahia, who became ...
Members of the Egyptian women’s beach volleyball team have spoken out against France’s hijab ban for its athletes after competing in an Olympic beach volleyball match wearing modest clothing. Marwa ...
Brazilian lawyer Silvia Ferreira founded an Arab fashion brand in Egypt in 2015, selling authentic Arab clothing mainly to ...
The Delta Textile Factory in Minya, Egypt. Former Wall Street Journal correspondent Leslie T. Chang’s award-winning book “Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China,” published in 2008, ...
Women could choose from at least seven professions in ancient Egypt: priestess, musician, singer, dancer, mourner, weaver and midwife. But the full diversity of women’s occupations in ancient Egypt ...
CAIRO, Dec 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nagat Mohamed was in dire straits. After sales at her clothes shop in Egypt's Nile Delta plummeted, she took out a loan from a microfinance company to keep ...