This Sunday night is Oscar night. The Academy Awards ceremony will honor this year’s best American films. They’ll also award this year’s best foreign language film produced ...
Cairo is one of the noisiest cities in the Middle East. There’s the non-stop traffic, the calls to prayer blasting through loudspeakers, and aggressive salesmen hawking ...
Valentine’s Day is a big deal in Egypt. Shops are full of red roses, boxes of chocolates and heart shaped candies. In the Middle East, people are expected to get married in ...
The Swine flu epidemic appears to be on its way out. Most of us escaped the outbreak without much harm, but that was NOT the case for the Zabaleen in Egypt. You may recall ...
More than 250,000 Americans lost their jobs last month. And experts say there’s no telling when the job market will recover. But for ultra-orthodox Jews in Israel, ...
One of the classic dishes of the Middle East, especially among Palestinians, is Maalube. Daniel Estrin learned how to make this colorful dish from one of Jerusalem’s most ...