Aiming for the breathtaking vistas offered by the Saint Catherine National Park's mountain trails, eight Egyptian young men and women were caught by an unforeseen blizzard a week ago. When the rescue team succeeded to locate the stranded hikers, (...)
Despite a failed reconciliation attempt, calm returns between the Salafis and the Sufis after a volatile week which could have plunged the country into no less than civil war, reports Injy El-Kashef
In what, so far, appears to be a pre-meditated (...)
Another facet of the counter-revolution? Injy El-Kashef follows the destruction of holy shrines sweeping the nation and the resultant friction between Al-Azhar and the Sufis on the one hand and the Salafis on the other
A Sufi massive protest was (...)
Tweet me this, tweet me that, who's still afraid of the big black bat? Injy El-Kashef follows the virtual steps of a revolution that has inspired the world at large
"Lies Exclusive on Egyptian TV", a slogan carried by protesters in Tahrir Square, (...)
Injy El-Kashef steps through the green gate of the World Environment Day in Cairo's Al-Azhar Park
Remember Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ? Remember the inventiveness, ingenuity, resourcefulness and creativity the golden ticket winners witnessed (...)
Injy El-Kashef spends 30 extra minutes with Benjamin Zephaniah, the "born failure" slowly changing the world
He is the "uneducated" rebel brandishing his spear of words. He looks 30 but is 52. He is the Rastafarian activist who was shot at in Gaza. (...)
A win-win tomorrow? Only if it starts today, says Injy El-Kashef
The opening session began, speaker after distinguished speaker extrapolating the interwoven sub-themes and creating the challenging tapestry that the conference aimed to tackle: (...)
Injy El-Kashef follows the 13 April tweets
According to a headline on Masrawy.com, one of the largest Egyptian news portals on the Internet, "25 per cent of Egyptian youths suffer from hypertension". Well, the youths who participated in the (...)
Introduced to the work of Project Yourself, an innovative forum for young people, Injy El-Kashef gives three cheers for self-expression
Last Thursday, the sky over Cairo suddenly turned a menacing dark grey around sunset, with clouds hanging low (...)
An unexpectedly pleasant surprise: Injy El-Kashef goes to the movies
Except for Mohamed Saad's captivating buffoonery and Ahmed Mekki's charismatic hilarity, I would rather watch paint drying than suffer any of the lot of actors purporting to be (...)
While the award-winning translator Humphrey Davies spoke to his AUC audience of rebellion, passion and a journey guided by instinct, Injy El-Kashef was rapt
Piles of publications by the American University in Cairo (AUC) Press were displayed outside (...)
Two journalists, two women, two world views. Oprah Winfrey asked the questions, Injy El-Kashef gave her answers
"Would you consider yourself to be a closed minded woman, Injy?" was Oprah's first question addressed to me on her episode on marriage (...)
With Martin Scorsese speaking at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Injy El-Kashef just listened
Toll station attendants on the desert highway connecting Cairo to Alexandria must have wondered what could be the cause of increased circulation on that (...)
Costa Gavras agrees with Injy El-Kashef that the world will always need heroes
"Know yourself, the ancient Greeks used to say," the internationally acclaimed director Costa Gavras said last week in an exclusive interview with Al-Ahram Weekly. "We (...)
Injy El-Kashef relishes an encounter between brush strokes and Egypt's unfamiliar tribes
photos: Mohamed Wassim
In an unprecedented initiative among private art galleries, eight local artists set up a workshop in the heart of the southeastern (...)
Injy El-Kashef searches for reason in the midst of the online frenzy surrounding the Egypt-Algeria debacle
Days after the death of pop icon Michael Jackson clips purporting to having captured the celebrity's ghost wandering around his Neverland (...)
Forty-five tribes have populated Egypt's deserts for millennia and yet their existence remains a mystery to the country's urban masses. The Characters of Egypt Festival aims to showcase their ways of life. Injy El-Kashef was there
It had been a good (...)
Injy El-Kashef cheers as two tribal elders give a lesson in empathy
"I have a dream."
Martin Luther King is not alone in having a seemingly impossible vision. Two years ago Walid Ramadan, the general manager of Fustat Wadi Al-Gemal, a tented village (...)
In Bahariya, Injy El-Kashef found the same old sand, and some brand new customs
It was over 10 years ago that I first set foot in Bahariya Oasis. I was bewildered. And when I stood over the hill on which lay the mud-brick ruins of the old city of (...)
You think having the gift is all it takes? Injy El-Kashef finds out about mopping floors
TWELVE EGGS: Twelve eggs -- no less -- slipped from the carton and crashed, one after the other, creating a gooey pool by my feet in a matter of seconds. In (...)
The back-and-forth banning of midnight film screenings has made recent news. Injy El-Kashef ponders the dynamics at play
Over the last couple of months, the rumours around last October's sexual harassment incident downtown had somewhat quietened (...)
Injy El-Kashef follows the yellow brick road
I had just depleted my bank account once more on school fees and was in need of a good strong coffee to sober me up. Strolling around City Stars after having resisted the pair of silver earrings that (...)
Restaurant review:
Hello, is there any body in there?
Injy El-Kashef speaks with her mouth full
Luckily, Yassine produced a little item from his pocket a few minutes after we were seated. The plastic head of a decapitated Spiderman emerged, and he (...)
Restaurant review:
Ripples of sand, not caramel
Injy El-Kashef spots the similarities
It had been six years since my last trip to Bahareya Oasis; Yassine was 10 months old. Having just returned, I realise that among the pleasant surprises of things (...)
Restaurant review:
'Tis the season
Perched on high, Injy El-Kashef breaks a few baubles
It was one of the large Hungarian collection of delicately hand-crafted Christmas ornaments my father had preserved for a good 20 years -- and it was Yassine's (...)