Hannah Elatty

SceneHome — 1st September 2026

Sam Shendi trained as a classical figurative sculptor in Egypt, then found his voice in stainless steel and colour after years away from art in the UK.

SceneHome — 31st August 2026

Granada fell in 1492, taking the last Muslim kingdom in Spain with it, but its arches, tilework and techniques stayed, moving into Christian palaces and Gaudí’s Barcelona.

StartupSceneME — 15th August 2026

This Egyptian startup is betting that queueing, booking, payments, and analytics should never have been four separate systems in the first place.

SceneTraveller — 6th August 2026

Nada Zienelden and Shaimaa Nader turned a crumbling apartment in Old Cairo into Takiyyat Musafir, both cultural centre and rest stop for travellers.

SceneHome — 4th August 2026

Zeyad Zein built LAYN’s first printer three times before it worked, then spent a year reinventing the concrete mix. Now they print for Egypt’s biggest developers.

CairoScene — 4th August 2026

Yasmeen Saad spent three years tracking down the only Egyptian aboard the Titanic, piecing his story together from a single comment left online.

StartupSceneME — 1st August 2026

Born from the adoption of a black Baladi dog named Anubis, Animaat is building MENA’s first pet-centric social platform, blending community and expanding into e-commerce.

SceneTraveller — 28th July 2026

Self-taught Moroccan photographer Imane Djamil has spent ten years in Tarfaya, a small coastal town where people save money and watch the weather, waiting for the right night to cross to Spain.

SceneNoise — 22nd July 2026

Taqbir channels punk into protest, responding to patriarchy and religious control with a sound grounded in resistance.

SceneSportsME — 21st July 2026

Mohamed Amine Zariat represented Morocco on the basketball court before founding Tibu Africa, a sport development organisation now reaching hundreds of thousands of young people across the continent.

StartupSceneME — 18th July 2026

What if business education started before university? This startup is making the case.

StartupSceneME — 26th June 2026

Part incubator, part advocacy network, Tech for Palestine is building the infrastructure of the boycott movement.

SceneHome — 18th June 2026

The Cairo rug house uses freestyle football as the latest stage for its century-old craft and evolving cultural vision.

SceneSports — 14th April 2026

Hoksha animates the walls of Minya tombs, surviving in local tradition and influencing contemporary game play.

SceneHome — 13th April 2026

Towers built for prestige ignored the desert. Projects like the Terra Pavilion show architecture can work with the climate and its people rather than against them.

CairoScene — 5th January 2026

Before it became New York’s most recognisable landmark, the Statue of Liberty was imagined as a monument for Egypt, inspired by ancient temples and the opening of the Suez Canal.

SceneHome — 20th November 2025

Here is how the discovery of King Tut’s tomb inspired some of America’s most iconic buildings.