Ahmed Ramadan
Reporter. Ahmed Ramadan is a Syrian journalist who has been working and living in Egypt since 2003. He has worked for a number of websites and entertainment magazines covering Arab and Western culture, lifestyle, and entertainment. Ahmed published his first collection of short stories in 2004 and his second collection in 2009. He is currently working on his first novel. He is also working toward a diploma in English Literature at at the University of London. Ahmed is passionate about fitness and has worked as a certified fitness instructor.
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Muffins have a special place in many people’s hearts. They are the small ray of joy you sneak into your bag when you are picking your coffee in the morning before you head off to yet another hectic day in the office. They are the beautiful...
Some go to Lebanon for the sightseeing. Some go for the lovely food. Some visit to enjoy the amazing winter season while others go to shop at the ABC mall. But a sizable number of people--including myself--go for the nightlife.
The city, while...
I have heard so many creative--and uncreative--excuses from clients who stopped coming to the gym or showing up to fitness class. Some complain about workloads, others blame it on the school season, with children having to be picked up, fed and...
Nihad Hadad, known to the Arab world as Fairouz, is considered by many to be the most important singer alive today in the Middle East. But the Lebanese diva, who at the age of 74 has made over one hundred albums, has not released original material...
English philosopher Francis Bacon once said, “Age appears to be best in four things: Old wood best to burn, old friends to trust, old authors to read and old wine to drink.”
While the saying is both poetic and true, I doubt Bacon ever...
The energy on stage at al-Genina theatre in Al-Azhar park last Thursday night was in attack mode for the opening night of a three-day Urban Culture Gathering. Dancers break danced, hip hop artists performed and people cheered, their shoulders moving...
Fitness education in Egypt has taken a huge leap toward introducing the latest international techniques and styles of fitness-related activity in the past couple of years. SAFE academy, one of the leading fitness education academies in the Middle...
“Fuul (Fava beans) is the meat of Egyptian people,” a taxi driver told me when I asked to stop at a cafe to pick up a cold cut sandwich, “How do you think our grandfathers managed to build the pyramids? They ate lots of fuul....
On Monday night, the Conrad Hotel in Cairo opened its doors to the stars of the recently-concluded Ramadan television drama season to celebrate the results of Al-Masry Al-Youm's online poll of the most popular TV shows.
Via Al-Masry Al-Youm...
The ultimate dilemma any critic faces when writing a movie review is, what, exactly, makes a movie good? So many different elements are at play that the criteria changes with each movie. "Step Up 3D," for example, poses a problem. Failing...
