Well Being: Today’s shaman song
BY DALIA BASIOUNY Cairo – Shamans are medicine men and women in the tribal cultures from Northern Siberia to tropical Africa and the Americas. They are known to facilitate transition and work between the physical realm and the spiritual non-material world. They communicate with the elements and the plant kingdom. In modern societies they act as conduits between worlds; they help their fellow humans who are troubled either in mind or in body. Shamans do not choose their job. They are chosen for their life path by higher powers. In primal societies, the shaman is summoned. She hears the song…
Chit Chat on the Nile: Last summer?
BY HEBA ELKAYAL Last month, I did the most frivolous thing I have ever allowed myself to do: buy a plane ticket and travel to another country to attend a concert. Lady Madge, aka Madonna, was set to give not one, but two concerts in Abu Dhabi as part of her MDNA world tour and a friend had a ticket to spare. I appreciate a good pun and I suspected Madonna’s tongue-in-cheek tour name wouldn’t involve anything related to the party drug MDMA but certainly a musical and visual high. I have spent money recklessly on shoes and dresses but…
