Amr El Beleidy

Close enough for a day trip and boasting beautiful natural scenery, Fayoum's Wadi al-Rayan natural protectorate is an increasingly popular…

Strolling through a London park, a casual conversation with a friend became the catalyst for a longstanding search for the…

As far as they can remember, their grandfathers and great-grandfathers have been drinking jabana, a type of coffee that evolved…

We did not want to wake up that morning. We knew it was our last in Shalateen, and we would…

We stood under the harsh sun waiting for our turn at the workshop. One of our tires was flat. We…

The air was thick inside the small apartment as a rusty ceiling fan revolved sluggishly. We were at our hosts'…

Getting ready for the 12-hour drive from Cairo to the Halayeb triangle is not an easy task, namely because it…

Every town has its story. Shalateen's is on the precipice of a turning point.Like each of us, towns are born…

The public beach in Shalateen was largely deserted, except for a few local Bedouin men, women and children lying on…

When we looked at a map of Egypt, the town of Shalateen and the Halayeb triangle by the Red Sea…