Edmund Bower is a British journalist based in Cairo. His main focus is on lifestyle and culture, but he has also written on politics and the environment.His work can be found at edmundsbower.wordpress.com.
For years, 40-year-old Aisha Saeed has lived in misery. She regularly suffers from severe headaches and stomach aches. As she sleeps, she is tormented by vivid nightmares; conscious, she hears…
Walking around the Egyptian museum, it is hard to imagine that just ten years ago this world famous attraction was crawling with foreign visitors. Nowadays, the museum is peacefully quiet,…
“Well, they have to wear the tarboosh. Otherwise you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference, they would look just like us.”
Squash is dominated internationally by young Egyptian players. With thousands on the waiting lists for expensive training academies, we ask why are so many attracted to this niche sport.
Egypt’s economy has stagnated since the 2011 revolution, pushing millions into poverty, but one group isn’t feeling the pain: Egypt’s billionaires, whose…
