WNO’s ‘Aida’: Impossible Tale of Love v. Loyalty
• October 27, 2025

Beginning its 70th-anniversary season, the Washington National Opera unveiled quite the anniversary gift after playing “The Star-Spangled Banner” for the Opera House audience on Oct. 24. It is Verdi’s “Aida,” […]

‘Beyond King Tut’ at National Geographic  
• October 12, 2022

The world’s largest archaeological museum is due to open next month a mile from the Egyptian Pyramids — possibly on Nov. 4, the day in 1922 that a 12-year-old water […]

Nature Encounters at the Red Sea and in Egypt’s Eastern Desert
• October 29, 2020

Dreaming of travel during the pandemic is a great way to get away in our minds, but now’s the time to start planning. Here is some inspiration …

Touring Egypt: From the Sublime to the Surreal
• March 25, 2020

For the first two weeks of March, my main concerns were whether I was brave enough to ride a camel (no) and wondering out the window of an air-conditioned coach […]