Cycling Middle East

Defiant

It takes some inner strength to battle against both social pressure not to cycle due to your sex and against a cycle-unfriendly environment: Yasmine Mahmoud cuts a defiant figure as she weaves her bicycle through the chaotic streets of Cairo, a place where few women dare to pedal. Every day, like for the past four […]

Bits & Bobs Life

By Thor!

Curious: Icelanders will soon be able to publicly worship at a shrine to Thor, Odin and Frigg with construction starting this month on the island’s first major temple to the Norse gods since the Viking age. Worship of the gods in Scandinavia gave way to Christianity around 1,000 years ago but a modern version of […]