Life & Style

It’s impossible not to notice the great expanse of desert that seems to fold out indefinitely around Siwa. Rolling hills…

Over the past few years, the numbers of marriage offices have increased. Ads in the streets of every neighborhood display…

With low expenditures on public health services and ineffective national health insurance, the poor are trapped between two equally bitter…

Four young women come skating around a colorful concrete outdoor soccer court at the Talaae Sporting Club in Cairo, shoving…

Brought up on a holiday diet of camping, caravanning and self-catering countryside cottages, my preferred mode of travel is usually…

In Egypt, street food is more than the diet of the poor. It is a passion, an art, and for…

Cairo is an endless game of musical chairs, where a set of stackable stools wedged between parked cars is a…

Due west from Cairo, the road leaves behind the urban gray for a world of endless beige, vast expanses of…

Anyone who lives in Cairo is plagued with the dilemma of Thursday night illnesses. Doctors rarely have clinic hours on…

Habiba Omar’s son is “a horrible eater,” she says. At a year and a half, he would only eat biscuits…