A look into offcut luxury with a side of tried-and-tested bags

Good afternoon, folks, and happy Monday. Our Made In Egypt series continues with our first sit-down in Meet the Founder and the first of many product reviews.

Reem Hamed, founder and creative director of Ramla, gives us an inside look at her founder journey and what it takes to create a full product line in Egypt. Her workaround for a domestic supply chain that can’t reliably give her top-grade leather is to go to the export tanneries herself and ask for the offcuts of hides meant for foreign buyers. In our Worth It? review, we put a few local leather bag brands to the test through weeks of daily use; some came out ahead of the others, and we’re telling you which.

Elsewhere in the issue: We watched Stanley Tucci’s new heist film on Prime Video, took a look at the footie fixtures on the pitches tonight, and introduced you to your next Sokhna wellness retreat.

But first, the news…