Nation of Pearls

Squillionaire Egyptian Technocrat and all-round smarty-pants Naguib Sawiris’s campaign to buy the only thing in Egypt that he doesn’t alread...

Copts gathering in Cairo's Tahrir square last night were photographed by a bald man, sources reveal. The man, who had no hair at all on ...

Spokesman for the Egyptian Ministry of the Interior Bashar el Gelied confirmed today that his department has received marching orders from t...

and start getting stuff under control you lazy toads!" In one of his hardest hitting editorials to date, Egypt Yesterday 's controv...

Cairo Tower. Nasser’s sharp stick in the eye to the Americans and their imperialist drones at the World Bank. Proved that Egypt could get a...

Eeeeeeeee-oh! What the donkey did to the porn industry, the internal combustion engine did to the streets of Cairo: filled in all those litt...

This is the Hyatt: a bedlam of bad taste, fake marble and faker brass and those Saudis with the receding chins. You know the ones who drag t...

Train. 0450. It’s still dark out and everyone else in the carriage is asleep: passed out drunk on the way home, or snoozing their way to wor...

A subterranean terrarium for fat Egyptian “businessmen” (read fat fuck Victoria College alumni pissing away the capital so tirelessly built ...

We guide book types are trained to find the good in everything. After all, if we can’t sell the destination, how can we sell the guide? And ...

Contrary to reports in various media outlets, including last week’s Nation of Pearls Magazine , Egypt Yesterday Editor Patrick Fitzpatrick ...

Just flashed from the NOP news desk: The Ministry of Foreigner Affairs is urging foreigners to remain calm despite reports of a rash of syco...

Reads the AFP headline , or did before that jelly-legged little twat who writes the headlines down there chickened out. Seems that expert se...

This is an undiscovered weekend getaway gem in one of Egypt’s least appreciated beach resorts. Located on the dramatic sweep of Arish’s prob...

are maintaining their cool despite crazy Bedouins in dresses throwing Molotov cocktails who have taken over the streets. Huddled in the beac...

Sodding great stone things in Giza. Built in 1892 by German contractor Bechtel for the shooting of a biblical epic that never quite happened...

Putting the dive back into dive bar, this cheap and cheerful little Ramses bar has it all: cold Stellas, a swimming pool and hookers. Where ...

the Aishas had installed the Caddy on the edge of the midan a few weeks back, the better to catch the last dribbles of the Gulf sex trade, a...

getting gloriously fruitcaked down at the Amoun with HR laying out his latest grand plan to put the NOP empire back into the black and wolfi...

Sinking. Sinking slow and low into the Egyptian night, Cairo spread out below like a crazy coal-bed of sodium, like some kind of slow burnin...

in the Cairo haze. Our Nation a shambles. The boat adrift, gone; our People scattered to the hot dry wind. This city is as hot as a dragon’s...

Beating down on the roof all night last night. Even drowning out the noise of the staff room television. The press corp is returning pieceme...

low and black over Kathmandu. The Moaists are on the march. Steadily infiltrating hotel, restaurant and bar staff, organizing unions under t...

at the Daily Gleaner , p-Mate and the HONK Campaign, we have been able to secure occasional reporting on the developing situation in Asia ...

answered critics of our government and seemed to take a swipe at certain members of the media community in a press conference yesterday, acc...

Howard K. " Sturn "? Ooooh, that's going to work out great. Noooobody's going to figure that out. William F. Cuntstler at ...

is Tony Blair's take on the best way to put the "e" back into Grate Britain. Blair, whose cell in Scheveningse was being prep...

What's this? An Islamic Dr. Ruth? So says the Daily Gleaner ! Better known for white-washing news that wasn't bland enough to begin ...

how yesterday afternoon flushed itself down time’s toilet, let alone where the last two months have gone. The notes I took, the record of my...

for the missing issues. Frankly, fuck you to everyone who has written in asking about them. We’ve been busy. The server’s been down. There w...