Life & Style

The day begins before dawn for most camels. In fact, many of them barely sleep. The journey from Daraw camel…

A small suction cup is placed on the skin and a vacuum is created, drawing the blood close to the…

When the late Basseem Nabki, a Christian man of Syrian descent, sold shawls and scarves in the popular quarter of…

“The idea of travelling has controlled their minds…People who travelled started building concrete houses and multi-story buildings. The youth became…

A taxi pulls up to the Shaar Hashamayim Synagogue on Adly Street in downtown Cairo. The driver has to wait…

At a time when the citizenship of a candidate’s mother disqualifies him from the presidency, it is nearly impossible to…

Foreign communities in Cairo and Alexandria in particular have helped shape the architecture, neighborhoods and communities that live there today.…

Once the metropolitan capital of the Mediterranean, today Alexandria has shed most of its former skin. Spitfire is one of…

Egyptian-born Wafaa El-Sadr — originally a graduate from Qasr al-Aini Medical School in 1975 — is currently the director of the International Center for…

The latest shopping trend: Facebook. As visas to Europe and the US are becoming increasingly harder to acquire and the…