Egyptian women from Parkour Egypt "PKE" practice their parkour skills around buildings on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt.Reuters Mohamed Omran, coach at the all-female Parkour Egypt "PKE," watches his ...

In a Tehran park, a group of young women brave sneering men and shocked looks as they perform flips, mid-air somersaults and bound from pillar to pillar in a surprising sight in a conservative Islamic ...

A group of women in Iran's capital has discovered parkour, the fast-moving sport that blends acrobatics and gymnastics, and made it their outlet for evading social constraints and coping with stress. ...

In most of the parkour jams she attends – where parkour practitioners congregate and train together – she says she’s often the only hijabi athlete. “I still am like the only person who wears the hijab ...

CAIRO, July 22 (Reuters) - A group of Egyptian women gather at an abandoned park in a Cairo suburb once a week, climbing walls and jumping around in the strenuous physical discipline known as Parkour, ...