So I did some retail therapy, had a yummy Iftar at Wagamama's, and am feeling a little more light hearted. Just wanted to wish everyone a happy Eid. Thank you all my readers for giving me your ear and shoulder when I need it. Love you for the sake...

I think I do this every Eid. But, I am going to say it again anyway. I hate Eid in Egypt. I suppose, in Dubai, most people I knew were without their extended families. So, everyone gathered together, or visited each other or whatever. It felt like...

When one thinks of a rebel, I suppose you would imagine tattoos, piercings, someone breaking the law, being mouthy, disobediant and so on. Nowawdays, that is more often than not, so I hardly think the definition continues to apply. I remember I had...

"I'm addicted to being awake," says Sameh Marghani, under the dizzying lights of a Cairo neighborhood teeming with families shopping and teenagers nodding to the boom-boom of their car stereos. It is midnight in Heliopolis, in northern Cairo, where...

To say.. I'm here... somewhere! But I hardly have a moment to think, and the blog seems extremely low on my list of priorities (or even my lists of things I am interested in right now, sorry to say!) I guess it is exciting really to have a life for...