An adventurous ex-pat finds the answer to her loneliness in the arms of a dashing stranger.

Cairo overwhelmed me. It wasn’t just the ancient ruins and monuments, spectacular as they are. No, what really overwhelmed me was the sheer size and vitality of the city. At least 15 million people are crammed into an endless maze of streets — millions more people than live in any city in America or Europe. Robed Bedouins talking on cell phones to stockbrokers in Hong Kong. Berbers in aviator sunglasses driving donkey carts. Men in turbans, fezzes, baseball caps. Women veiled head to foot, walking side by side with chic Westernized women in high heels and designer clothes. There are bazaars and marketplaces, grand hotels and even grander mosques, casinos, nightclubs, cafés by the hundred — and the traffic, the... Read More