Drivers maneuver through floodwater after a torrential rain in Alexandria, Egypt. Ibrahim Ramadan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images hide caption
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Passengers gather beside the tracks after a train crash that killed more than 40 people outside Alexandria. Officials say it's Egypt's deadliest rail accident in years. Ravy shaker/AP hide caption
NPR food editor Rhitu Chatterjee makes khichuri. NPR hide caption
A youth, trailed by his friends, gropes a woman as she crosses a street in Cairo, Egypt. Ahmed Abd El Latif/AP hide caption
Suad Thabet sits with her granddaughter Sandy at home in Abu Qarqas, Egypt. Thabet was attacked by a mob last year after one of her sons was accused of having an affair with a Muslim woman. Jane Arraf/NPR hide caption
After 2016 Assault, A Coptic Christian Grandmother In Egypt Fights For Justice
Gunmen fired on a bus carrying Coptic Christians in Minya, where many Christians live in Egypt. Here, a photo from 2015 shows Coptic Christians walking outside St. Markos Church in Minya. Roger Anis/AP hide caption
Archaeologists found sarcophagi made of limestone and clay. Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends the combined fire demonstration of the services of the Korean People's Army in celebration of its 85th founding anniversary in a photo released on April 26. KCNA via KNS /AFP/Getty Images hide caption
President Donald Trump meets with Aya Hijazi, an Egyptian-American aid worker, in the Oval office of the White House on Friday. Susan Walsh/AP hide caption
Egyptian-American aid worker Aya Hijazi was held for nearly three years without a verdict, in what human rights groups have called an "arbitrary detention." Mohamed el Raai/AP hide caption
Maamoul, a shortbread cookie stuffed with date paste or chopped walnuts or pistachios and dusted with powdered sugar, is the perfect reward after a month of fasting during Ramadan and Lent. These cookies are waiting to be baked. Amy E. Robertson for NPR hide caption
Relatives and onlookers gather outside a church after a bomb attack in the Nile Delta city of Tanta, Egypt on Sunday. Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Amgad Naguib holds a fez â one of the first made in Egypt as part of a nationalist movement started in the 1930s to replace imported goods. Jane Arraf/NPR hide caption
For Egyptian Collector, No Object's Too Dusty Or Trivial For 'Mosaic Of Our History'
After a prosecutor issued an order for Hosni Mubarak's release earlier this month, a group of people gathered in front of the Al Maadi Hospital in Cairo to celebrate. Anadolu Agency/Getty Images hide caption