Life & Style
Barakat: Authentic Uighur food near Al-Azhar
June 4, 2011
Barakat: Authentic Uighur food near Al-Azhar
This restaurant may have no name - at least no name recognizable to anyone restricted to Arabic or English -…
Family Friday: A sparkly outing at Crystal Asfour
June 3, 2011
Family Friday: A sparkly outing at Crystal Asfour
My daughter is a budding geologist. She loves rocks.
Summer Weekend Getaway: Sokhna resorts
June 2, 2011
Summer Weekend Getaway: Sokhna resorts
No weekend plans? For anyone outside of the education sector, it’s going to be a long hot summer in the…
Eliminating the stigma of AIDS
June 2, 2011
Eliminating the stigma of AIDS
The Forum to Fight Stigma and Discrimination against People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA) held a press conference at the Flamenco…
Postcard from Chang Mai: Trekking through the forest
June 1, 2011
Postcard from Chang Mai: Trekking through the forest
Located in Northern Thailand, Chang Mai is a city that is blessed with the kind of landscape and natural scenes…
Demonstrating like an Egyptian: Connectivity as a tool against autocracy
June 1, 2011
Demonstrating like an Egyptian: Connectivity as a tool against autocracy
Social media has allowed people to cross red lines and break taboos in autocratic regimes, but its creators do not…
Social initiatives: Ebda Benafsak
May 31, 2011
Social initiatives: Ebda Benafsak
On Saturday, a group of young students and graduates from Ebda Benafsak visited a school in one of Cairo’s slums,…
Amina Ghali: Tribal art
May 30, 2011
Amina Ghali: Tribal art
The first week of June marks the launch of Amina Ghali’s Spring/Summer Collection 2011. The 25-piece jewelry collection is Ghali’s…
Postcard from Djenne: It’s got a moat!
May 30, 2011
Postcard from Djenne: It’s got a moat!
I have always wanted to go to a city with a moat. It might not have a drawbridge - although…