Once famously known as The Mubarak Industrial Zone, the largest manufacturing hub in Egypt, located in Quesna— 100 kilometers north of Cairo— is now one of the most toxic  regions in the country, due to a lack of proper industrial waste removal. Once famously known as The Mubarak Industrial Zone, the largest manufacturing hub in […]

‘The Journey’ is a song by Ghazi Saeed, which narrates a personal experience of a Nubian poet who went on a journey from Cairo to Sudan, passing by Nasser Lake 15, years after the displacement that uprooted nearly 100,000 Nubians during the construction of the Aswan Dam. The poet was eager to see the houses […]

When he was ten years old and had just finished a school semester, Sayed Kiwan went to his father’s workshop in Ghayt Anassara village in Damietta and ask him if he should complete his studies or learn the profession of wood engraving. “I cannot allow you to leave our profession,” his father said. It was […]

On the fourth day of protests that toppled democratically elected Mohamed Morsi this past July, a new transitional period was launched by Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s declaration of a roadmap. The official announcement was made in the presence of Head of the Salvation Front as well as representatives of Tamarod Movement, al-Nour Salafist Party (the second […]

As if the brutal crackdown of Assad’s regime was not horrible enough, Syrians who managed to escape Assad’s inferno have faced the bleak destiny of becoming refugees.  In a country like Egypt, which is undergoing great political fluctuation, some refugees there have tried to escape its harsh life by illegal immigration via the sea, in […]

There is no explanation for the Egyptian Channel CBC to stop broadcasting a comedy program like el-Bernameg- presented by popular but controversial talk show personality Bassem Youssef– other than fearing the impact of sarcasm on the new Egyptian regime. There is no explanation for the Egyptian Channel CBC to stop broadcasting a comedy program like […]

“The season is down”, “It is dead”, “It is gone” say the locals in Sharm el-Sheikh, the one-time touristic pearl of Sinai and the largest city in its southern region.  It is where Mubarak spent the last decade of his rule and where tourism flourished as it was deemed the most beautiful city in the […]

The time machine has not yet been invented, but until that happens, wars serve as unique and melancholic time travel mechanisms. Where there are long wars, a hole into the past opens from which diseases and epidemics thought to be extinct, suddenly emerge—cholera, the plague and, as the World Health Organization(WHO) recently announced, polio; which, […]

Kidnapping in Minya governorate has recently turned into a source of income. The abductions have exclusively targeted Copts and Islamic groups have been blamed, especially in the aftermath of numerous assaults against Coptic Christians following Mohamed Morsi’s removal from office. Kidnapping in Minya governorate has recently turned into a source of income. The abductions have […]

As if the brutal crackdown of Assad’s regime was not horrible enough, Syrians who managed to escape Assad’s inferno have faced the bleak destiny of becoming refugees.  In a country like Egypt, which is undergoing great political fluctuation, some refugees there have tried to escape its harsh life by illegal immigration via the sea, in […]