What would the Baron think, wonders Colette Kinsella
Baron Empain, the Belgian visionary responsible for the founding of Heliopolis, is rumoured to have hated noise. Which is why, the story goes, his famous Heliopolis basilica located near his home (...)
Canadian star Bryan Adams took the Egyptian public by storm. Colette Kinsella wishes for her soirée gown
The recipe for staging a successful live concert in Egypt, it would seem, is quite simple: take a rock star, place him or her at the foot of (...)
Colette Kinsella bores into one of Egypt's more successful glossies
Whenever I settle in a favourite haunt for a coffee and a muffin I am amazed at the plethora of English-language magazines strewn around. Apart from news-based publications, there (...)
Horseplay, history, waves and waivers: all are part of the perfect weekend escape within Cairo for Colette Kinsella
To get away from it all is something everybody needs now and again. If Bill Clinton can take it upon himself to redefine the word (...)
Africa is facing one of the worst public health calamities of recent times; the race is now on to save thousands of children on the continent from paralysis, writes Colette Kinsella
Africa is on the brink of one of the worst polio epidemics in (...)
All that glitters is not necessarily five-star; Cairo has much to offer in the way of low-budget classy accommodation. Colette Kinsella goes in search of hidden treasures in the heart of downtown
Albert Einstein once said, "I love to travel, but (...)
As temperatures rise in Cairo, city dwellers meet in a most unusual place. Colette Kinsella investigates summer nights on the Nile
Cairo, the Mother of the World, is definitely a night owl, a fact never more obvious than in the searing heat of the (...)