It’s the world’s oldest ironic holiday. To discover the festival Shem En-Naseem, or “smell the breeze” in Arabic, the first stop is a fish market. Every year Egyptians crowd around the counter to buy ...
In April, an Egyptian appeared on television with an unusual call to his neighbors: let fish rot. Many heeded his call. Soon, the stench of unsold fish began to fill the markets in Port Said, where ...
The millennia-old delicacy of feseekh is a staple of the Egyptian spring festival of Sham al-Nessim — Khaled DESOUKI The overwhelming smell may be misleading, but the Egyptian town of Nabaruh, its ...