Mosque minarets dot the Cairo Skyline giving Cairo its nickname as the city of one thousand minarets In the predawn hours of my first morning in Aswan, Egypt, I woke up to the chants of a call to prayer reverberating from mosque minarets. It’s Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of observance, and the melodic cadence…

The age-old art of handmade, glass-blown, and paper mache Christmas ornaments lives on in the village of Lauscha, in Germany's ancient Thuringian Forest. Karen LeBlanc in the Krebs Glas Lauscha showroom, open to the public. One of my favorite Christmas memories as a child was unspooling the tissue paper-wrapped silvered Christmas ornaments compartmentalized in cardboard…