Life & Style
NAS Trends: Preserving Egyptian culture
March 9, 2010
NAS Trends: Preserving Egyptian culture
Cairo's fashion scene is full of new, hip fashion designers. NAS Trends is one such hip and young newcomer to…
Royal Crown Revue in town
March 8, 2010
Royal Crown Revue in town
Among the bands coming to town for Cairo International Jazz Festival are Royal Crown Revue, a force behind the late-1990s…
Jehane Sadat as a painter
March 8, 2010
Jehane Sadat as a painter
Jehane Sadat’s exhibition “Landscape of the Heart” is a collection of paintings that span from 1986 to 2009.It is the…
Crossing the line
March 8, 2010
Crossing the line
Winners of the 2010 Egypt Rally Cup were met with an explosion of cheers, screams and whistles as the first…
Meat pie and oven sweet potato wedges
March 7, 2010
Meat pie and oven sweet potato wedges
Stuck with ground beef and sweet potatoes? (It happens!) I went out on a limb with the pie crust... but…
Broadway with a twist of jazz
March 7, 2010
Broadway with a twist of jazz
Last night the Riff Band entertained a full house at El Sawy Culture Wheel in Zamalek with a carefully chosen…
Trailblazers
March 7, 2010
Trailblazers
For the past two decades, the Egyptian desert has been the premier destination for rally-car races. This vast wilderness, which…
The starting line
March 6, 2010
The starting line
The 2010 Egypt Rally kicked off early this morning, with the 15 participating teams driving their cars to the starting…
Desert storm
March 6, 2010
Desert storm
The ground shakes. A cloud of dust rises on the horizon, growing steadily. From its heart comes a low, angry…
The kickboxing workout, pt. II
March 4, 2010
The kickboxing workout, pt. II
A kickboxing workout is high-energy and strenuous. Amr Shinawy leads his class through a kick warm-up and then a sparring…