"It's kind of late," I said, looking at my watch. "What if Carrefour closes at ten?" Could it be that all the traffi...

"Where do we stand on acquiring ourselves with our parent company? Employee health insurance? The auditors? And what about insurance on...

The world's best hamburger is in Egypt. Before recruiting a couple of good sports (Craig and Cairo-newbie Yasir) for the long trek down ...

My office has a car and driver now. Or rather, Captain M and I have a driver (the same driver who got the boot two weeks ago). It's a p...

If you come to Cairo and want to see the pyramids of Giza, don't go first thing in the morning. While it sounds like a good idea in theo...

"Put the book down slowly and back away." My pal Edward Readicker-Henderson was counseling me by e-mail. I'd just written him ...

I love the two-pounds-fifty store! The only problem is that it's usually too crowded, thus my attempts at buying fuzzy dice and stuffed...

It was 9:30 on a Thursday night, and I was working on the outline for my next book ("Curse of the Hippo: Recovery Across Ten Countries...

How grand it must have seemed when Yamama Centre was first built in Zamalek in 1989! The oldest mall in Cairo is a near ghost-town these da...

Captain M likes Zamalek. It's where I live, a neighborhood of embassies and expats on the northern tip of Gezira Island. Zamalek has tre...