Ramadan restaurants
The VerandaConcorde El Salam Hotel, 65 Abdel Hamid Badawi Street, Heliopolis Tel: 622 6000Hours: 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. (lunch)Iftar: 7 p.m. to 12. a.m. (dinner) The environment at The…
Keep it simple: Get back to basics with Ramadan recipes
CAIRO: The norm in Ramadan is that the more complicated the recipe, the better the meal; the stranger the ingredients and their combination together, the better the cook. Cooks all…
The fat factor of Ramadan
The trick to losing weight in Ramadan isn t just exercise, but smart exercisingCAIRO: Too much food makes you fat. This is a fact that cannot be argued. But, what…
Diary: Qatar: torn between past and present
Saad Al-Jassem slips out of his dishdasha revealing a body in extraordinary shape for a man who turns 70 this year. On a traditional wooden dhow off Doha s corniche,…
Present and Tense: Holy munch
Did Ishlam shpread by the shword or tzhrough tza power of pershuatsion? This was the question that divided planet Eartzh 30,000 light years ago or so. We're just starting to…
Sports Talk: Heads of squash
CAIRO: As far as can be ascertained, only one person has ever played squash against both Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.Mohamed Awad is Egyptian who…
Sufi Ramadan traditions
Shems Friedlander stresses that Sufis are Muslims first and foremostCAIRO: "I cried because I had no shoes, and then I met a man who had no feet. This famous line…
Aboutraika inspires Al-Ahli to African Champions League triumph
Agence France-PresseCAIRO: Mohamed Aboutraika sparkled as Al-Ahli of Egypt beat ASEC of Ivory Coast 2-0 in the first leg of an African Champions League semi-final at the weekend. The midfielder,…
Crime Scene
Crimes down as Ramadan lull kicks inCAIRO: The past few days witnessed a lull in crime that some have attributed to the spirituality of Ramadan. While the religious aspect of…
For refugee students, a new school year but an uncertain future
CAIRO: Summer is over and classes have begun at schools and universities across the country this month. Egyptian schools have received much attention recently due to problems like overcrowding and…
