With Red Flag on the way, Ahmed Hatem has been fully embracing his toxic-man era, telling women that if a guy does this or that, it’s…
Author: Malak Shalaby
Malak Shalaby
Malak cannot seem to get enough of Literature - so much so that she has pursued it in both her BA and MA, and the love affair is still going strong. Aside from her love for words, humans generally fascinate her. She spends a lot of her time analyzing the minds of people around her and watching criminal minds. She is still fairly new in adulthood, and until now, nothing has made sense in life but chocolate.
If Sahel hotels are starting to blur together into endless white walls and beach clubs, boutique hotels are the antidote. Smaller scale, more personality, and each…
If mango season had a social calendar, this would be it — the time of year when dessert spots across Egypt quietly compete to see who…
There are footballers who become global superstars and somehow turn into polished media robots. And then there’s Mohamed Salah. No matter how many trophies, interviews, campaigns,…
Every summer, Sahel develops its own language. There are the places everyone suddenly decides are in, the restaurants with waiting lists, the beaches with QR codes,…
For the second chapter of What Now, My Love?, Zawya Cinema’s retrospective marking the centennial of Youssef Chahine shifts into a more political register. Part II,…
Some players inherit expectations before they inherit opportunities. For Mostafa Shoubir, that came with the surname. Being the son of Ahmed Shoubir meant growing up attached…
Some careers begin with a lifelong plan. Others begin with missing one. For cinematographer Kamal Samy, cinema wasn’t the dream from the start. For years, the…
There’s something about summer dressing that makes everyone collectively decide: less effort, more personality. This season, crochet headpieces and bandanas are doing exactly that. They’re giving…
Coffee runs are officially a group activity now. Across the Middle East, more cafés and pet spaces are making room for the real VIPs: dogs who…
