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Friday newsletters always feature luxury travel contests, tips, series, or news. Today (January 8, 2016): Travel news: the most anticipated hotel openings of 2016. Last month, I published my list of the 40 best new luxury hotels of 2015. Today, I explore...

Egypt can be a rough place to visit. There's pollution, crazy traffic, lots of hassle, and much much more that can turn your trip of a lifetime into a week full of stress and aggregation if you don't plan well. Comfortable accommodations can especially...

One of the things I love most about being The Points Guy is getting to hear stories from readers about how award travel has affected their lives — the exotic vacations they’ve planned, the trips they’ve made to be with family and friends, the premium...

Abbreviated Edition "The PD community really is a welcoming and supportive bunch." --Academic James Pamment; image from “epiphenomenal” --How some academics define public Diplomacy QUOTATIONS Quotations on Diplomacy and the Foreign...

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Based in Cairo, I am examining media and visual culture in Egypt and across the Middle East. I have researched comics and satire in the region since 2012. Spending long evenings with cartoonists grappling with the aftermath of the revolution...