Cosmopolitan Cairo

... to check it out the next day. Today I also discovered a fabulous European café across the street from the American University of Cairo (AUC). They serve lattes, pizza, pasta, sandwiches, and salads. This is a major coup for me. I will now have a great ...

... them. The creature is known in Arabic as Abu al-Hol (Father of terror). They say the Sphinx, like everything else in Cairo is suffering from a lack of maintenance, that it has the equivalent of cancer because it is being eaten away from the inside. That ...

... seen yet. At 4am, everyone was going to another place, but I declined because I was exhausted and thought I had to prepare for class. But, I had a great time learning more about Cairo and hanging with locals, soaking in the moment and doing what they do.

Today I went to the Cemetery of the Dead, which oddly enough has become home to thousands of very much alive locals. They are a mix of low income families and the homeless who first took up residency here more than five centuries ago. It is also a place ...

Driving today was crazy. I learned that the signs for the exit off-ramps are positioned after the exit, so unless you're familiar with the streets you're inevitably going to miss your exit, perhaps several times. I was told that one of the most famous ...