So, guess which game is a runaway hit with folks of all generation in my part of the world.
No, it's not lacrosse, football or picking ticks from your best friend's scalp with homemade tweezers.
Hanging.
Yes, hanging is the number one game (...)
I love EgyptAir. Honestly I do. And I have flown a number of different airlines, some Arab, some European, and some Arab Gulf airlines.
In total, I have flown about 15 different airlines - some have been coach, economy while others have been (...)
I miss the Eid break. No, am not overtly pious nor philanthropically inclined - I do my bit for charity.
But it is the eerie, almost apocalyptic silence that accompanies Eid in many parts of Cairo. First off, you are not awakened by the honking (...)
CAIRO: The 30th Cairo International Film Festival ended two weeks ago and fast on its heels was the Marrakech film fest. When that ended, Dubai, the concrete jungle, hosted its own cinematic extravaganza.
Film fans and critics were absolutely (...)
There are those who would say I am a megalomaniac . something along the lines of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine.
Who could forget when Palpatine grilled Samuel Jackson's Mace Windu and screamed in typical Sith blood-curdling fashion "POWER! (...)
Please.
Do not get excited by the headline above. This is neither a column about my sexual preferences nor how stylish I may be.
It is not about being bohemian or metropolitan.
It is about that long, winding blue and white tube which (...)
The Big Kahuna wants to start off this week by apologizing to the fanatical throngs of faithful readers for not making an appearance last week.
See, while you dry up your tears and quiet your worried hearts, you should know I was reeling with (...)
Diseases and displease
The Big Kahuna is ill
Something I caught in a taxi ride en route to interviewing a chef for my second column. But the detour left me frazzled.
Befuddled.
Watch out for that puddle, yasta.
That kid running from (...)
Catching up with Cairo's coffee craze
Coffee run, A.N. said on the phone.
A coffee run . in Cairo? Well, sure, I had been away for a while but finding out that some offices in the city send staff out to buy coffee for everyone or order coffee, (...)