In a corner of Arkan Plaza in El Sheikh Zayed City, on the westside of Greater Cairo, sits a haven for lovers of good quality coffee. Nestled in between a number of other premises of locally-owned small businesses, Specialty Būn is a tiny place, but...

A remnant of a bygone era, a cultural icon with symbolic importance: the tarboush, or the fez, carries a political past, signifying power and status for the wearer. A red hat for the country’s leading officials, military officers, clerics, school b...

For the experienced, it is “heaven under the sea” – and for the unlucky, it marks an untimely, devastating end. On the shore of Dahab, Egypt, is a cavity in the Earth’s crust, an infamous dive site known as the Blue Hole. From an aerial v...

Scents can trigger vivid memories, and teleport us to places, past moments and environments even when we’re miles away. Walking along Egypt’s streets, one can be hit with many scents, both ancient and new, that define the soul of a community or a...

  It’s a mid 1900s daydream: an open road, windows are rolled down, music emanating from the car’s radio, and life feels like a movie. The vintage tactility of classic cars brings back memories of a bygone age only seen in frames. Exudin...

When there is too much beauty in the heart, it spills outward: in kind eyes and a smile, in a show of tradition or companionship – or in ink. Blue and faded, the Arab women embrace rural facial tattoos as a symbol of faith in all its forms. Fro...

From ink to paper, the story of the Arabic typewriter is puzzling; a story of two worlds that unraveled a pool of questions, but first the most important one is: who invented the Arabic typewriter? Selim Haddad and Phillip Waked have both claimed the...

The Egyptian Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade issued a new government decree which aims to regulate the trade and sale of locally sourced wheat supplies. Ali Al-Moselhi, the Egyptian Minister of Supply and Internal Trade, has decided that strict...

Exuding her own kind of sophistication and style, Elizabeth Taylor brought her sense of luxury to women everywhere through her iconic emerald necklace. Almost no picture was taken of her without it, and until this day, the jewel is associated with he...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi directed the government on Tuesday, 15 March to enforce price controls on unsubsidized bread nationwide in order to help curb the recent price surges, Presidential Spokesman Bassam Rady said in a statement. Acc...