This is the time of the holiday Eid al Adha in the Muslim world and it takes place on a different date every year. Most of the Western world has never heard of this holiday, so here, with the help…
In my village in Upper Egypt when I was a child we played in the dust. We collected it, we built small walls, tiny walls in the ground. We would make a small fence with the dust and say this…
I had to face all the challenges, to build my own future with my own fist. There has been the deepest of suffering in this life. Suffering from being alone, being a slave of others. But it has made me…
My parents were cousins. This is normal for Egypt and all of the Arab world. People marry their cousins. When my parents got married, they lived in a room in my father's parents' house. This was normal for Egypt too,…
Here is the story of a man with Israeli and Syrian citizenship who lives in a village in Lebanon. Impossible, you think? Not at all. This Syrian Israeli, whom we'll call B, is a 32-year-old dentist from an Arab village…
First of all, I want to say that I am Egyptian. I am not Arab. People think Egyptians are Arabs, but this is not true. Arabs are from the Gulf countries. Egyptians are different. We are of a different ethnic…