In a literary evening that defied Cairo’s summer heat with breezes of creativity, Bayt Al-Hekma Publishing House hosted a seminar on Wednesday evening, July 30, 2025, to discuss the new young adult novel My Father, the Mapmaker by author Ashraf Aboul-Yazid. The event was moderated and critically explored by Dr. Mohamed Maher Bassiouni,
Out of 7000 languages on the planet, 700 of them can be found in New York, and many of those are endangered – Samantha Ellis
There is usually a lot of violence and displacement in the stories of these languages becoming endangered.
The monolingual empire drains the energy from other cultures
Samantha Ellis’s book Chopping
My eyes can also see
The green hills
Such a scene lights up
My homesick heart.
She narrates in her own words, “I began working on Persian Eyes after years of rehabilitation, following a serious accident, where I also took up Persian. Following eye surgery, it occurred to me that photography was probably THE best medium for
The 31 teams aiming to appear in the AFC Futsal Asian Cup™ Indonesia 2026 learnt their opponents following the Qualifiers draw at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Thursday.
The teams were divided into seven groups of four and one group of three with the Qualifiers to be played on 20th-24th September 2025.
The eight
The Sharjah Commerce and Tourism Development Authority (SCTDA) has announced that the Emirate of Sharjah welcomed approximately 1.6 million hotel guests in 2024, marking an 11 percent increase compared to 2023.
The announcement was made during a press conference held on Wednesday with the participation of SCTDA and over 25 government and
