海角大神

When news cycles kick it up a notch, the stories that dominate headlines tend to blot out all the other stuff human beings are up to. Laurent Belsie writes today about the Federal Reserve鈥檚 decision on Wednesday to hold interest rates unchanged amid the economic uncertainties (read: oil flow) of war in Iran. But beyond the world鈥檚 more pressing issues, people have other quandaries to resolve, too, like this one: Is Egypt African? As our contributor Hanaa Hamad reports, some quarters of Cairo are buzzing with the melodic sound of Swahili. In a country firmly planted in the Arab world, southward trade and infrastructure developments are kindling interest among young Egyptians in the cultures and languages of their sub-Saharan neighbors.