Only 12 Jews remain in Egypt, the remnant of a community of some 100,000 that lived there until the 1950s, the community’s leader said. “We are dying, we are drowning, we are finished,” Jewish ...

While Jews worldwide will celebrate Passover this week, recounting the ancient Israelites’ exodus from Egypt, a newly released report sheds light on a modern exodus that remains largely forgotten: the ...

In his memoir, “‘Goodbye, Tahrir Square: Coming of Age as a Jew of the Nile,”’ Elio Zarmati tells the story of his childhood in Egypt and the events that forced his family to leave. Against the ...

Documentary maker Amir Ramses surveys the history of Egypt’s Jewish community, which played a prominent role in secular society throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries but was almost entirely ...

This story was originally published on My Jewish Learning. (JTA) — Years ago, my family and I visited the ancient Roman baths for which the city of Bath, England, is known and named. An exhibition ...

Several decades ago, Joseph Kodsi said, he was in his office at the textile plant he ran in Egypt when a man kicked in the door and entered with two soldiers. The government was taking over the ...

This episode of True Talk features journalist and author Massoud Hayoun, an Arab Jew whose work explores the intertwined histories of Arabs and Jews. His book, When We Were Arabs, co-written with his ...

(JTA) — Eric Trager, a Jewish Republican Senate staffer and Egypt expert, is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Middle East advisor on the National Security Council, multiple news organizations ...

CAIRO, March 13 (Reuters) - Egyptian authorities have failed to issue a permit to screen a historical documentary about the country's Jewish community, the film's producer said on Wednesday, one of a ...