Interview: Serena Guen of Suitcase Magazine

Experience the world through the eyes of a young editor and her new travel publication

Suitcase Magazine is a new print publication that is re-imagining the role of the travel magazine by saying goodbye to the impossibly luxurious and the underwhelming tourist clichs and embracing the eclectic and adventurous appetite of a generation of creatives and entrepreneurs. The magazine launched in 2012 as the brainchild of its young and vivacious editor-in-chief Serena Guen, who started the magazine after becoming frustrated …

Word of Mouth: Cairo

Sailing, cocktails and watching the sun set between the pyramids in the metropolis on the Nile

by Laila Gohar While Egypt continues to make headlines for a revolution which led to the ouster of a nearly 30-year-old political regime, the sprawling megacity has a thriving underground scene that beats and buzzes with energy around the clock. The city—once a cultural hub for the region—is a marriage of old a new, with pharaonic treasures and ancient world heritage sites existing alongside medieval …

Alite Designs’ Bike to the Beach Bag

The transitional backpack to tote bag design gets an update

Designed to make the transition from weekday workhorse to beach-going carry-all, Alite Designs’ aptly named Bike to the Beach Bag can be worn as either a backpack or carried as a heavy duty tote. Building off the original design—created in collaboration with Outlier back in 2010—the current iteration features a much sleeker silhouette and refined strap system. To ensure a long life, Alite hand-constructs each …