I belong to those people who spend most of the time they are not in bed sleeping at the office. Not that I don’t enjoy the hours at home with the family. But, luckily, working for me has always been more than a means to simply earn a living.
As I spend all that valuable […]

Eventually, I hope to find time to share with you some of my thoughts and experiences coming back and settling in Cairo after more than four decades. My first weeks in Egypt have been packed with deja-vues. One of the more remarkable of these often emotional experiences has been a reunion with former school mates […]

Still relatively new to Egypt and unfamiliar with many aspects of the country’s politics, I was impressed by a recent meeting with representatives of Egyptian liberal youth organizations. Quite honestly, I had not been aware of these groups’ very existence just a short while ago. But then, no less than five delegations showed up at […]

This afternoon, I visited the offices of a leading Egyptian newspaper. As a journalist by profession, I cherish meeting media-people to get their take on things. For me, this is particularly valuable as I am new to the place and (still) rather ignorant.
At the end of the visit, the editor-in-chief, a bright and well educated […]

In the life of a blog, six months is an eternity. My last post is almost that old. Admittedly, this is not the correct way to treat your readers. And, therefore, the minimum I can do is offer an explanation (and an apology to those who have come along over the past couple of […]