Lina El Wardani
Sit up straight!
Health & Fitness
May 6, 2010
Sit up straight!
Almost 80 percent of Egyptians do suffer back and neck pain. Lina El Wardani speaks to Dr. Wael Koptan, Assistant…
Tributes and outrage: Behind the ‘Booker’
Books
May 6, 2010
Tributes and outrage: Behind the ‘Booker’
Fifty-year-old scholar Youssef Zidan's controversial novel Azazeel (The Devil) clinched the Arabic world’s top literary prize – the Arabic Booker…
Romancing the stone
Fashion
May 6, 2010
Romancing the stone
As far back as the Stone Age, men and women wore crystal jewelry and talismans. They had protective as well…
Global dining
Food
May 5, 2010
Global dining
Want to have a quick, yet healthy and luxurious dinner? Gourmet Egypt is the first retail company that serves fine…
The Art of Disturbing
Art news
May 5, 2010
The Art of Disturbing
Capturing controversy with a caricaturist's eye, Steve Bell has memorably portrayed George Bush as a chimpanzee and Margaret Thatcher as…
An Ancient Diet
Food
May 5, 2010
An Ancient Diet
Recipes from the Pharaohs' Kitchen is Magda EL Mahdawi's new release, Al Masry al-Youm met the writer and revisited the…
The Nubian dream: Caught between old and new
Egypt
February 5, 2010
The Nubian dream: Caught between old and new
"Photo, money, come!" pleaded 80-year-old Raseema, who doesn't speak Arabic or English, except for these few words. She only speaks…
Old Nubia, paradise lost
Archaeology
February 5, 2010
Old Nubia, paradise lost
This month, Aswan's famous High Dam celebrated its golden anniversary, marking fifty years since its construction and the resultant migration…
An official celebration
Egypt
January 18, 2010
An official celebration
Aswan-This week, the Upper Egyptian city of Aswan celebrated both its national day and the 50-year anniversary of the beginning…
Jubilee of an eternal and high dam
Egypt
January 18, 2010
Jubilee of an eternal and high dam
Aswan-- On 15 January 1971, Egypt celebrated the completion of the High Dam, whose funding was the center of a…