Life & Style
Summer in the City: Fairmont Hotel roof parties
July 3, 2011
Summer in the City: Fairmont Hotel roof parties
Summer in the City is a bimonthly party held at the Fairmont’s rooftop Sky Pool. It launched on June 8…
Postcard from Toledo: A rich mixture of historic art
July 3, 2011
Postcard from Toledo: A rich mixture of historic art
Monuments, natural landscape and souvenirs are a blend worth driving from Madrid to Toledo to see. Entering the former…
Streets of Cairo: Amrika al-Latinia is Garden City’s heaven and hell
July 2, 2011
Streets of Cairo: Amrika al-Latinia is Garden City’s heaven and hell
Garden City is a calm, posh residential neighborhood located in the heart of town. One of its main veins of…
Children’s corner: Kids’ furniture with a new perspective
July 1, 2011
Children’s corner: Kids’ furniture with a new perspective
In 2005, Hala Freiji and her husband decided to revolutionize Egypt’s interior design industry with innovative designs professionally crafted with…
Weekend Getaways: The Sahel 411
June 30, 2011
Weekend Getaways: The Sahel 411
Over the past few years, a network of North Coast compounds from Agamy to Marsa Matruh has sprung up, starting…
Science journalists conference comes to Arab World
June 30, 2011
Science journalists conference comes to Arab World
The start of the Seventh World Conference of Science Journalists on 27 June in Doha brings 760 participants from 90…
The Sexual Harassment File: Do men consider women in harassment?
June 29, 2011
The Sexual Harassment File: Do men consider women in harassment?
Ahmed is an 18-year-old student wearing a plaid shirt and waterproof-gelled hair. He’s walking in Mohandessin, an upscale neighborhood in…
Postcard from London: Speaker’s Corner in Hyde Park
June 28, 2011
Postcard from London: Speaker’s Corner in Hyde Park
Bearded and balding, the elderly gentleman is delicately poised on his stool as he addresses the crowd in front of…
Social initiatives: Alashanek Ya Balady’s fight against child pneumonia
June 28, 2011
Social initiatives: Alashanek Ya Balady’s fight against child pneumonia
Developing a critical strategy for controlling pneumonia, the main cause of child mortality in Egypt and developing countries, is the…
Cupcake madness: Searching for Cairo’s best
June 27, 2011
Cupcake madness: Searching for Cairo’s best
It was only last year that the cupcake storm hit Cairo and names like Nola, Crumbs, Sugar & Spice and…