Nevine El Shabrawy
Life & Style editor
Nevine was a managing editor at local English-language lifestyle publications London Runway Magazine and Insight and Lounge Mag. She recently completed an MBA at the Maastricht School of Management and she holds a bachelor's in Media Studies from Pomona College, Claremont, California. She is also a photographer and has spent time working on writing and editing for business, marketing, and promotional material.
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Community sporting clubs are a deeply entrenched pillar of the city of Cairo. Sporting, hunting, yacht and soccer-based clubs are scattered around suburbs and communities throughout the greater city.
The largest and oldest of these clubs are the...
Four Egyptian women found their way on to Newsweek’s 2012 "150 Women Who Shake The World." Newsweek explained the list as one of women who stepped out to change the world, and pointed out which women had focused in particular on...
As International Women’s Day arrives again, many women in Egypt worry that their lives will change for the worse in the near future and that they are nearly powerless to stop this. Several women shared with Egypt Independent their opinions on...
Nestled away under the knobby tree canopies of Road 15 in Maadi lies a self-proclaimed antique and vintage store named Theodor’s. The large blue sign and flowered garden furniture are a welcome sight — especially for the customer...
It used to be said that in Egypt, to make money, one should invest in real estate or food. But nowadays it seems the new moneymaker might be in offering services to the city’s youngest patrons. In several parts of Cairo, high-end businesses...
As traffic worsens (doesn’t it always) and blockades and walls add to the fun of navigating Cairo mid-week, it seems less and less appealing to travel from north (Mohandiseen) to south (Maadi) or even in between Dokki, Zamalek and Garden City...
As you walk down Road 9 in Maadi in the middle of the day, you are inundated with honking from cars trapped by double parkers, shouts from street valets and vendors, and music coming out of the cafes that litter the sidewalks.
What often goes...
It seems Cairo has no saturation point for little shops full of knick-knacks and Egyptian-made craft products. Painted pottery and carved wood crammed into tiny stores where one must overcome dust and kitsch to find a piece worth placing in...
Imagine a night at home with a good movie and some even better company — do you order Chinese, spring for Indian? No! Good Mexican delivery is now available from Gringo’s Burrito Grill! The “delivery-only” joint opened in...
The Chinese Year of the Dragon begins Monday and little celebrations are taking place all over Cairo within the Chinese community. On Saturday, the New Year Dragon made a visit to Maadi’s Community Service Association (CSA), where Chinese...
