The memory of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's assumption of power; when this phrase is presented to us today after so many years, fleeting images from a long history pass through our minds, if only for moments. This is especially if you were a witness to those events firsthand, or if you chose to revisit and understand them later
Last week, I left my car in Alexandria and returned to Cairo with my husband. Early in the morning, my husband dropped me off at my workplace near Cairo University. I had to figure out how to return to the Fifth Settlement in New Cairo, so I planned to use Uber.
After work, an audacious and different idea occurred to me. I decided to
My adept psychiatric father, may he rest in peace, taught me how to give injections since I was a child, not realizing then that I would benefit the most from it, both physically and mentally.
He used to tell me that the human brain can only perceive one action at a time, so if you press on the injection site and withdraw your hand at the
For expatriation from the homeland, there are endless hopes and aspirations that do not stop at its geographical borders, and these hopes do not recognize the long distances that the expatriate travels away from his homeland, imagining deep within himself that what he reaps in material and perhaps social gains can make him forget his pains or
Coffee has one face; every time you sip from it, a pleasant mood visits you. Nevertheless, you find that some people have several faces, and they make little effort to make any of those faces beautiful.
We know very well that we may not be able to discern the boundaries of the universe, nor human stupidity. Proverbs say that repetition
