Friends have often relayed to me joyful childhood memories of visiting the trendiest cassette shops to request a mixtape of all the latest Egyptian songs with…
Author: Thomas Pinn
Thomas Pinn
Thomas can often be found taking walks throughout Cairo in search of the weird and wonderful. He is interested in local histories and is studying for a Master's in international relations with a particular focus on Cairene urban development and heritage conservation.
In Egypt over a century ago, amid the then mostly rural Cairo suburb of Maadi, the world’s first solar power plant was built in 1913. In…
Gone are the days of cheap air travel, but there’s still a few locations that you can get to from Egypt without having to sell the…
Six years ago, me and my now wife went on our first date. We dropped by the Townhouse Gallery (now known as Access) in downtown Cairo…
There’s something special about baladi dogs. They’re playful, kind and affectionate, but you normally see them roaming the streets and sleeping on car roofs, not on…
For the International Day of Yoga on Tuesday June 21st, we headed out to the calm of Ardi to sit down with its founder, Shereen Malak,…
Before jumping on the Metro back home at the end of a hot day, I stopped by a small cleaning supplies shop in downtown Cairo to…
Herodotus described Egypt as a gift of the Nile, but Egypt is only one of eleven countries that lay in the Nile-basin. The Nile curves and…
Humans have marked their presence in the world by painting on walls for thousands of years, particularly in Egypt. With the prehistoric paintings of human figures…
Ever noticed rowing boats scuttling along the Nile at sunrise or sunset and wondered where they came from? There’s a good chance these rowers were with…