Summer's almost here, bringing with it that scorching midday sun. It's becoming almost painful to do anything or go anywhere in the heat, but still we are tied to our 9 to 5 schedules, it's almost impossible to move around the city - or should I say (...)
Personal chef delivery services, home-meal replacement companies, and prepared-meals from the grocery store for home consumption - do you ever feel like you need a degree in economics or engineering to feed yourself properly these days?
How many (...)
Lap dogs and pigeons co-starring in one routine; scared horses running in circles; malnourished lions and tigers jumping through a hoop of fire - Cairo's circus is something else. Entirely something else, that is, from what it is supposed to (...)
Hana Elawadi didn't plan on being a jewelry designer; she studied International Business. This whole enterprise was somewhat of an accident, albeit a very happy one.
Elawadi used to take apart cheap jewelry so that she could tie and glue it back (...)
In a country that used to scoff at the idea of eating raw fish, the number of sushi addicts is growing faster than the number of outlets that can satisfy their cravings.
Over the past year, Mori Sushi has become a favorite, and last week (...)
Wedding season is quickly approaching and while planning a wedding can be a daunting task, it doesn't need to be. Good organization and some research makes everything easier - even enjoyable.
Since most girls start dreaming of their wedding dress (...)
Is Western media persuading young girls everywhere to be reckless? Has the fight for female empowerment swung wildly into a lost territory of irresponsibility and extreme behavior as the world waits for the next ridiculous media frenzy surrounding (...)
This month's SOS (Save Our Soul) Festival seemed to go off without a hitch, but what else is new? In its seventh installment in just over a year (including a smaller-scale festival that promoted the Stand Against Hunger campaign), SOS has developed (...)
When she moved to Cairo with her family in 1989, the plan was to stay for three years. Eighteen years later Maja Soric is still here. While life does not always go according to plan, things can work out for the best and this artist's journey proves (...)
Jannelle Cortes and Keti Sharif are kindred spirits.
The two have never met and are from opposite sides of the earth, The US and Western Australia respectively, yet they followed a similar path that led them to Egypt. Simply put, they are both (...)
There are now five seasons in Dubai: spring, summer, autumn, winter and shopping festival season.
Representatives from the Dubai Shopping Festival (DSF) were in Cairo this week to announce their calendar of events for the upcoming DSF 2008, Jan. (...)
It was a family merging of sorts in The American University in Cairo's Sony Gallery at John Feeney's "River Man photography exhibit opening. New Zealand's Feeney, who passed away this time last year at age 84, lived in Egypt for 40 years. On this (...)
Diwan bookstore in Zamalek hosted the official launch of a new book documenting the life of artist Abdel Ghani Abul-Enein.
Born in January in 1921, Abul-Enein exhibited a panache for painting and acting at an early age. He enrolled in the faculty (...)
Amal Choucri cut the ceremonial ribbon from a wheelchair. It was the opening of her exhibition "Down Memory Lane and she had just come from the hospital where she would soon return for surgery, the remnants of an IV were still in her hand.
This (...)
You may have walked by an art exhibit Friday night without realizing it. The streets were calm in Cairo as most were at the Ahly match or glued to their television sets watching it at home. It was the perfect time for the Young Arab Theater Fund (...)
Researching before the design company Nagada's fashion show, I read about two amazing people, Sylva Nasrallah and Michel Pastore, the owners. Later I would be pleasantly surprised to find that not only are their intentions good and backstories (...)
There were 10 or 12 females at H-Kayne's outdoor, Nile-side concert at El Sawy Cultural Wheel last Monday. I was one of those females and the bathroom attendant was another. The other 30 plus audience members were male - many of which worked with (...)
It wouldn't make sense traveling to, say, Moscow for a belly dance show; hence my apprehension about attending The Cairo Opera Ballet. Still, I was curious.
What's more, the performance was Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps, a breakthrough in (...)
Champollion Street in the evening is somewhat intimidating for a lone American girl like myself. I fumbled through shisha smoke, past unwinding men, and down an alley to find Mashrabia Gallery. In my fitted jeans, Converse shoes and with iPod in (...)
The stark emptiness of the photo exhibit at El Sawy Cultural Center caught my attention, as did the images on display.
From the loudspeaker, I deciphered there was an open-mic event in the small theater just beyond where I was. Although noisy, it (...)