Lindsey Parietti
Copy Editor
Lindsey has been a copy editor with Al-Masry Al-Youm English since December 2010. She also produces video news packages for Reuters. Before joining the newspaper, Lindsey worked at Egypt Today and Business Today magazines and was a political reporter in Boston. She secretly prefers the other side of the desk, and her work has been published in the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Huffington Post and the MetroWest Daily News, among other publications. She thinks blogging is a bit narcissistic, but occasionally indulges anyway at http://lpinthefield.wordpress.com/
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President Mohamed Morsy revved up his computer and sat down to answer to the people Wednesday, at least according to his office, which recently announced he would respond to questions posed on Twitter.
Since then, a series of mainly vague missives...
PORT SAID — It’s just after 2 am on Monday, and dozens of people are milling around the gates to Port Said’s main docks. Microbus drivers stand in groups outside their vehicles, smoking cigarettes and joking as they wait for the...
In the world of underground music, electro-pop singer Yasmine Hamdan is known for Soapkills, the duo she started with Zeid Hamdan (no relation) in Beirut in the 1990s. But as she breaks away from the influence of that formative band and defines...
With water rushing under him, Mustafa Saeid paddles up the Nile, putting stretches of the Manial banks behind him. Arcs of droplets sail off his blades as he alternates between port and starboard on an invisible axis.
There’s peace to be found...
A traditional Moroccan hammam is a memorable experience. Five years and two months later, I can vividly recall nearly every detail of my first such venture into the neighborhood baths of a city in southern Morocco.
Surely it was made more...
Standing on a sandy farm with three eager donkeys nuzzling you for carrots, it’s hard to forget that less than a kilometer away are less fortunate animals, many underfed and overworked.
But here at this Saqqara sanctuary, donkeys ...
From aerial views of the thousands standing shoulder-to-shoulder in Tahrir Square and the hazy, tear gas-filled streets, it would seem Cairo has devolved into chaos. The panicked tweets and images ― many gruesome and violent ― broadcast earlier this...
Protesters evacuated Mohamed Mahmoud Street Thursday to the cheers of others gathered in Tahrir Square, though some are refusing to leave what has been the front line of most of the fighting with police.
Barbed wire now blocks the street near the...
This article is part of Al-Masry Al-Youm’s weekly “Endangered Species” series, covering Egypt’s endangered flora and fauna.
Just 10 years ago, the Barbary sheep was widely believed to be extinct in Egypt, and although...
Zumba, a Latin-inspired dance workout whose mottos all involve the word “party,” is growing in popularity worldwide and in Cairo. Unlike other fitness fads and celebrity workouts that quickly fade, this trend is still attracting...
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