Now, you may wonder what happened after my trip to Mount Sinai – or not. Well, I’ll tell you anyway. As Mubarak resigned and things started to get back to normal in Cairo, our school reopened. Isabelle, my flatmate, came back from Canada on Friday 25...

Ok, I have been pretty lazy lately, I haven’t written here for ages. Sorry about this. I have found that in this country you tend to have mood swings every other day. Sometimes you just feel you are having the time of your life, and sometimes the only...

For once, I'm not going to talk about me, but about some of my female colleagues, who have had the most peculiar experiences since they arrived in Cairo. You remember when I said in a previous post that Egyptian men are just frustrated and desperate for...