CAIRO - If I were to define the word "Egypt" I would say "home" because it simply is where we belong. I was born, grew up and live here. I want to die and be buried here as well. Really there is no place like home, despite all the problems that we (...)
Hey everybody. How are you? Hope you are having a very blessed Ramadan. Due to the recent political events in Egypt I couldn't stop myself from focusing on politics over the past weeks. However, things are going to change... but gradually. This week (...)
CAIRO - I spent an "exciting" week since the last article I wrote. On Sunday, as a very proud Egyptian I participated in demonstrations against the former regime, which I was totally against since it revealed its ugly face.
Ironically some in the (...)
CAIRO - "A Stranger in a Strange Land", "The Stranger", "Stranger in Moscow", "Strangers in the Night" and even "Aliens" are titles of works I can relate to these days. It is so strange how things are now in my country and even my neighbourhood (...)
CAIRO - "A Stranger in a Strange Land", "The Stranger", "Stranger in Moscow", "Strangers in the Night" and even "Aliens" are titles of works I can relate to these days. It is so strange how things are now in my country and even my neighbourhood (...)
CAIRO - On June 21 of every year more than 110 countries all over the world celebrate "Fête de la Musique", or as it is called in English, the World Music Day. The Egyptian celebration this year was very unique, for it was not held at venues like (...)
CAIRO - Here we go again with another evening at the Cairo Opera House. Yes on Friday the Cairo Opera Company presented a gala concert at the Main Hall and I was there to attend but I decided not to write a review.
That's it. Goodbye. Fine, I will (...)
The other day I was watching the latest Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises and seriously the way Bane and his clan were determined to destroy Gotham City reminded me a lot of what some are trying to do to Egypt.
A few months ago I warned that the (...)
After five years of battling against cancer, she won. She didn't recover ��" she passed away 10 days ago, but we believe she is in a much better place. That was my dear aunt, one of the people who pampered me since birth and through the years was (...)
Last Tuesday, I enjoyed the company of many friends and hundreds of people that I don't know in an afternoon march from the Cairo Opera House to the Ministry of Culture in Zamalek. The purpose of this march was to protest against appointing Alaa (...)
This week, let's take a break from music and talk about star signs, which has nothing to do with fortune telling, but it is about the characteristics of people born under a specific sign. Many people don't even know their sign. However, most of (...)
Spring starts in March and that is why a flower fair was held on Saturday, March 30, at Orman Garden in Giza. Didn't I tell you that March is a great month?
Egypt's Minister of Agriculture inaugurated the 2013 Spring Flower Fair, which saw the (...)
CAIRO - Do you believe in hypnosis? I do and that is why I attended a lecture on Friday at Al-Azhar Conference Hall about it. Although the lecture discussed other things, it focused on hypnosis and ironically enough the lecturer hypnotised everyone (...)
Before the end of this amazing month, I thought I'd write about some of the world's most talented artists who were born in March. I guess I will ignore the mediocre ones and, because I will not have enough space to include all those I like, I will (...)
“Its fields are full of good things and it has provision for every day. Its granaries overflow, they reach the sky. Its ponds are full of fishes and its lakes of birds. Its fields are green with grass and its banks bear dates. He who lives there is (...)
Weddings... these are things that people enjoy because they are happy occasions, at least for some. While the bride, groom and their close friends enjoy weddings, the in-laws moan and curse their bad luck for having that horrible person as a new (...)
The other day, a friend told me that he was disappointed because many Egyptian movies have been ripped off from foreign ones. I believed him, although I hardly ever watch Egyptian films.
One of the four movies I have seen over the past three years (...)
This is a story that happened but never existed... or something like that. It was all over the place on Thursday, but completely denied on Saturday by the same man who supposedly made the statement. Good for him, because I think millions were going (...)
What is this thing called music? What is so magical about it? Not only is it used as therapy, but it is also very effective. No matter how hard I've tried to solve the mystery, I can't. I just fell in love with music at a very young age and this (...)
It is ironic how creeps, freaks and convicts crawl out of their pits to make highly provocative statements then disappear. I wouldn't expect such cowards to come out in the open and mingle with the people, because they know what would happen to (...)
Last week, I mentioned that a friend had been robbed in Tahrir Square on Friday, January 25. Now I have the details and it wasn't as simple as I thought!
On that day two female friends of mine were sexually harassed. One of them told me that many (...)
If you are abroad, then you probably have a hazy picture of what is going on here, but if you are in Egypt you will see nothing at all.
Tear gas has that kind of effect and, unless you are wearing goggles, visibility is zero at certain points. Of (...)
This is Scene One in a very interesting play and, judging by the audience's reaction, it will also be the final scene in the first and last play I have ever written and will ever write.
It is a dark, cold, windy, rainy, dusty night and the sun is (...)
Last Tuesday witnessed the premiere of Mozart's two-act opera ‘The Magic Flute' in Cairo Opera House's Main Hall. This is something I couldn't have missed... so I missed it and attended the third performance.
It turned out to be the last one as (...)
A fortnight ago, I wrote about television talent shows dedicated to discovering new artists. The final one I mentioned was ‘The Voice', which many people in the Arab world enjoy watching every week.
Just to remind you how it works on ‘The Voice', (...)