Worshippers hold balloons after the Eid al-Fitr prayer on Sidi Bishr Street in Alexandria, Egypt, on March 31, 2025. (Photo by Ayman Aref/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (R) and French President Emmanuel Macron react as they shake hands and exchange signed-bilateral agreements during their meeting at the Presidential Palace in Cairo on April 7, 2025. France's President started talks dominated by the Gaza war on April 6, 2025, with Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi after arriving in Cairo. On April 7, Macron, Sisi and Jordan's King Abdullah II will hold a summit as Israel renews its offensive against Hamas in Gaza. (Photo by Ludovic Marin/Pool via AFP Photo)





Rehab, a female whirling dervish, spins during a charity day organized by a group of volunteers who distribute toys and food at Darb Shughlan popular district in Cairo, Friday, April 11, 2025. (Photo by Amr Nabil/AP Photo)





Sudanese women refugees react at an assembly point for buses arranged for their voluntary return from Egypt to Sudan, in Cairo, Egypt, 12 April 2025. Between 30 to 40 buses leave daily from different points of the Egyptian capital towards the border with Sudan, with about 1,500 passengers, according to data from local transport companies. Sudanese refugees have been gradually returning to their country after Sudan's army regained control of the capital Khartoum from paramilitary fighters of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in late March 2025. According to the UNHCR, over three million people have fled Sudan to neighboring countries since the outbreak of an armed conflict in April 2023. Egypt alone is estimated to have received more than half of them, according to government figures. (Photo by Mohamed Hossam/EPA/EFE)





This photo taken on April 19, 2025 shows the Giza Pyramids at sunset seen from Cairo, Egypt. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A visitor looks out towards the Giza pyramid complex as she tours the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza on the southwestern outskirts of the capital Cairo on May 5, 2025. (Photo by Khaled Desouki/AFP Photo)





Sudanese who forced to flee and sought refuge in Egypt due to conflict, wait for buses at a station in Cairo as they on their way to home county after the army took control and ensured security on May 13, 2025. The Sudanese army captured the town of al-Hamadi in South Kordofan state on Tuesday following intense battles with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The RSF and the army have been locked in a brutal power struggle since April 2023, resulting in thousands of deaths and pushing Sudan into one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. More than 20,000 people have been killed and 15 million displaced, according to UN and local figures. (Photo by Mohamed Elshahed/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Tourists stand next to museum exhibits displayed at the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), which set to officially open fully on July 3, following a partial opening last year in Giza, on the southwestern outskirts of the capital Cairo, Egypt, on May 23, 2025. (Photo by Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters)





A boy pulls on the reins of two camels standing at the Birqash camel market on the northeastern outskirts of Giza on June 4, 2025, ahead of Eid al-Adha, the Muslim feast of sacrifice. Known as the “big” festival, Eid al-Adha, or Feast of Sacrifice, is celebrated each year by Muslims sacrificing various animals according to religious traditions, including cows, camels, goats, and sheep. (Photo by Khaled Desouki/AFP Photo)





People have fun at an amusement park during the Eid al-Adha holiday in Cairo, Egypt, on June 8, 2025. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A firefighter reacts after a fire erupted in a telecommunications building in the Ramses district of downtown Cairo, Egypt on July 7, 2025. (Photo by Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters)





A child looks outside from a train window as Sudanese families displaced by conflict return home voluntarily from Egypt to Sudan, on a special train, coordinated by the Egyptian Government, which is transporting them from Cairo's Ramses Station to Aswan, in Cairo, Egypt, on July 21, 2025. (Photo by Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters)






Members of the Egyptian Red Cross look on as trucks loaded with humanitarian aid cross the Rafah border gate, between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, in Rafah, Egypt, 27 July 2025. The Israeli army declared a 'tactical pause' in military operations in parts of the Gaza Strip on 27 July, to facilitate the safe passage of humanitarian aid convoys. (Photo by EPA/EFE/Stringer)





Boys cool down in a portable swimming pool in al-Duwaiqa neighborhood of Cairo on July 29, 2025. (Photo by Khaled Desouki/AFP Photo)





Sudanese refugees voluntarily return from Egypt to Sudan on a special train, coordinated by the Egyptian government, transporting them from Ramses Station in Cairo to Aswan, Egypt on August 3, 2025 in Cairo, Egypt. A free train service is running between the Egyptian capital of Cairo to the southern city of Aswan, where people can then board cross-border buses to the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, as part of a voluntary repatriation program for Sudanese nationals who have been displaced by the conflict in Sudan. The repatriation service comes after Sudanese armed forces regained territory around the capital from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), bringing a relative period of calm since the start of the civil war in April 2023. (Photo by Sayed Hassan/Getty Images)





A crane pulls an artifact from the waters at Abu Qir bay in Alexandria on August 21, 2025, as part of an event organized by the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities to recover sunken antiquities. (Photo by Khaled Desouki/AFP Photo)





Divers watch as a crane pulls a piece of stone from the waters at Abu Qir bay in Alexandria on August 21, 2025, as part of an event organized by the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities to recover sunken antiquities. (Photo by Khaled Desouki/AFP Photo)





A diver celebrates after one of the ancient relics was lifted out of the water in the Abu Qir Bay in the Mediterranean Sea city of Alexandria, Egypt, Thursday, August 21, 2025. (Photo by Amr Nabil/AP Photo)





A view of the underwater remains of the British cargo ship “Thistlegorm”, which was sunk by German aircraft in 1941 after being deployed to transport military supplies from England to Egypt during World War II, in Egypt on September 10, 2025. The wreck, situated about 40 kilometers west of Sharm El-Sheikh, stands as one of the Red Sea's most popular diving spots. Armored vehicles, torpedoes, jeeps, rifles and Norton motorcycles designed for desert use, along with wagons lying in the dark waters, reveal traces of history while serving as a habitat for diverse marine life. (Photo by Tahsin Ceylan/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A tourist walks inside the newly opened Tomb of Pharaoh Amenhotep III in Luxor, Egypt, 04 October 2025. The tomb, first discovered around 1799, was opened to the public on 04 October following two decades of restoration led by UNESCO. (Photo by EPA/EFE/Stringer)