The Literary Traveler: A Book Celebrating Ashraf Aboul-Yazid Through the Eyes of the World World-Renowned Composer Omar Khairat to Perform an Exceptional Concert Tomorrow in London My Assignment in the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Arab Media Platforms Spotlight Egyptian Students’ Sustainable Food Innovation When the Narrative Collapses… Memories of Abdeen and Maadi A Fraudster Who Defrauded the Story of His Own Fraud Me, Field Marshal El-Gamasy, and Translation
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Happy crutches: a limp and a smile

When anyone encounters a problem in life, this person has one of two choices: to collapse or to challenge. Collapse, anger or submission is an easy choice; you have to do nothing. The moment your life changes with a phone call, an accident, an x-ray or a blood test the easiest respond is to cry, scream yet do nothing to change it or resist.

Attraction and Admiration

A person spends most of their life captivated by beauty. Whether it be in people, material possessions, or natural scenes and tourism. Seeking beauty, venerating it is genetically coded into the human psyche. Focusing on the social aspect, we’ll talk about beauty in people. We are all aware of the existence of an objective

The Blessing of Renouncing Blessings

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

Stupidity Has Many Faces

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

The Novel Responds to Readers' Tastes

Whoever has the chance to visit libraries and places of books and magazines sellers in squares and main streets now will see a dazzling novel invasion, and perhaps will not find a single poetry collection or a single short story collection amidst this abundance of novel publications. During a field trip, I asked one of the book sellers at