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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Reham Alaa, a 27-year-old painter, launched her first solo exhibition on 26 June.
Despite the rundown venue of the Cairo Atelier and the small room in which her paintings — all untitled — lined the walls, Alaa’s work jumped out at...
My friend Reham is an excellent cook. Above and beyond being a talented painter and an excellent mother, she can cook up fantasy dishes of fatta, experimental pumpkin pies and most recently, orange teriyaki steaks with apricot prune vermicelli....
Every Ramadan, the ad scene seems to get more and more intense. Like the US during the Super Bowl, ad space during Ramadan TV shows is highly coveted airtime.
Anyone who grew up in Cairo in the 1980s will remember the TV ads that consisted of a...
It’s 8 am on a Friday and “Souq al-Gomaa” (the Friday Market) is already grumbling with vendors and clients. Since a fire broke out in the center of the market in 2010 and the government demanded it move to the 15th of May district...
It’s the last day of shooting for “Arafa al-Bahr,” a Ramadan soap opera that began the night before Ramadan and will continue until the last day. Like the 72 other shows this year, the plot and storyline have to stretch over the...
Soha Magdy wakes up every weekday at 6:30 am. With tea and a piece of mahlab bread, the 30-year-old housekeeper and nanny smokes her morning cigarette before her husband wakes up. She prepares him a couple of fuul sandwiches before she gathers her...
With something for every budget in our weekly must-have guide, there’s no excuse for not looking fabulous this summer...
Below LE100
Retro Chic’s fun rubber bracelets (LE63) are great to collect and match for the summer. The material is...
The Egypt Independent staff gathered with a quest: to get to know each other better through our diverse culinary roots.
Charged with cooking food that had local relevance to each individual, reporters, freelancers, editors and copy editors mused...
Cairo Kitchen opens its doors to the public (and to delivery) tomorrow, April 15th. The colorful, practical and delicious haven for koshary lovers and tormented Cairean vegetarians and vegans is part of a long overdue but growing trend of revamping...
Maadi’s Road 233 has been blessed with a new restaurant — a Mongolian eatery named Ghengis Khan. The restaurant is unassuming — white tiled floors and four tables visible from the front window. In the back is a fifth table —...
