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Cairo is an endless game of musical chairs, where a set of stackable stools wedged between parked cars is a veritable downtown cafe and where lonely chairs reserved for bowabs and the resident codger can be found below almost every high-rise...
On the rooftop of the Seven Heaven Hotel in Dahab sits the Sun Restaurant, where every morning Kaori Kubo wakes up to a view of the sea and sun, a pack of cigarettes and two dogs who have come to adopt her. At 6 am, most tourists are fast asleep...
Unless you’re floating across the city’s bloodline, it is a safe bet that when traveling overland from downtown to the island of Zamalek, you’ll cross either the Qasr al-Nil or the 6th of October Bridge. Here, rush hour venerates...
At an apartment in Maadi, Irene (not her real name) watches her friend browse through her Facebook feed. A photo clicked reveals a Cairo delivery room where a white American man holds his newborn at the bedside of his Filipino wife.
"She's...
On a typical evening at the Spicy Cafe in Hurghada, camera phones snapped shots of an unlikely pair: a local man robed in a white galabeya and a Russian tourist clad in a short dress and pumps, caught in mid-dance. Customers and staff members, and...
Some 300 orphans participated in an iftar hosted by the Rotaract Club recently, an annual event marking the Ramadan tradition of breaking fast and almsgiving.
Charity iftars are a common feature in Cairo, where by dusk, long communal tables set up...
Clad in a galabeya and clutching a foldable mat, Luqman Bazlan boards a tram from Chatby toward Raml Station in downtown Alexandria. In his four years studying medicine at Alexandria University, the Malaysian national has never observed Ramadan in...
For Mohamed Khams, working as a masseur on the night shift at a Cairo hammam was not easy at first.
“Well, let me tell you something,” Khams says, starting a recent interview with Egypt Independent at the meslakh, or reception area, of...
Fuego’s all-you-can-eat sushi special is arguably the best roll-for-pound deal in town — but only if you’re Japanese, a seasoned fish fiend or endowed with an insatiable gut.
Into its eighth month, the joint on Abul Feda Street in...
After nearly 50 years under military rule, Burma is turning a page. Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel laureate and a paragon of democratic change for many, was elected to a post in the Burmese parliament last month. Meanwhile, the US and other Western...
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