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Articles of the author Mai Samih
Eco-friendly home alternatives
Over recent years, more and more people have been buying environmentally friendly products for their homes, like cement tiles instead of ceramic, and furniture made of recycled materials like tables made out of old wooden doors or chairs made from (...)

22 - 09 - 2021
Ancient Egyptian cuisine
What the ancient Egyptians ate in the distant past has some similarity to what the modern Egyptians eat today. However, there are some types of food that they would eat that the modern Egyptians do not eat and other types that they knew of that the (...)

14 - 09 - 2021
Sewing for all
Many efforts have been made over recent years to include those with special needs more in Egyptian society, notably by ensuring that they receive their fair share of opportunities in schools and the workplace. Efforts have also been underway to (...)

14 - 09 - 2021
Getting a good night's sleep
Many people suffer from sleep disorders that can range from insomnia to sleepwalking. However, there is a cure for each depending on its cause, which could either be a medical problem or a psychological one or both. "The number of sleeping hours a (...)

25 - 08 - 2021
Proud to be Egyptian
Some young people in Egypt today may feel alienated and unable to be proud of their origins, in some cases because of the lack of job opportunities, like in the case of fresh graduates. According to the Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and (...)

10 - 08 - 2021
Finding a new life through therapy
Many people face shocking experiences in their lives, including witnessing a loved one die in the Covid-19 pandemic or suffering a terrible accident. However, whereas some people are able to bounce back to a normal life following such experiences, (...)

22 - 06 - 2021
Finding the right masculine values
It can all begin in early childhood, when a child might be brought up to believe in patriarchal concepts like favouring a boy over a girl in a family or be encouraged to exert his authority over female family members simply because he is a boy. He (...)

22 - 06 - 2021
A little taste of Ramadan
Many mothers can have a hard time feeding their children during the holy month of Ramadan when they are learning fast and can end up eating less. For this reason, it is particularly important that they eat what healthy foods they can, and from here (...)

03 - 05 - 2021
Growing nuts in Egypt
With Ramadan only a few days away, people are beginning the tradition of buying different kinds of nuts ahead of the holy month in order to use them in traditional dishes, whether savoury or desserts. These include rice with nuts, or roz (...)

06 - 04 - 2021
Abolishing little lies
Many parents can have trouble understanding what is going on in the lives of their children until it is too late because their children lie to them for different reasons. Children could be either facing or causing trouble and pretending that (...)

16 - 02 - 2021
Generating solar energy at home
After the Industrial Revolution, the dominant source of energy worldwide became fossil fuels, with horse-drawn carts being replaced by cars fuelled by petrol and furnaces replaced by electric or gas ovens. But although this was a practical shift for (...)

26 - 01 - 2021
Let's go to school
In a neighbourhood full of red brick homes is a modern grey school building with classrooms no different from those of an international school. Colourful geometrical designs line the floor of the building which houses the new community school at the (...)

08 - 12 - 2020
Growing food at home
Egypt is known for its rich cultivated land, and Egyptians have known how to grow crops efficiently on it since ancient times. During the time of the ancient Egyptians, people lived on the banks of the Nile growing crops like wheat and barley, along (...)

24 - 11 - 2020
Smaller fashions... bigger dreams
Finding suitable clothes can mean spending a long day at the mall for anyone, but what if there is nothing suitable in any shop at all? This is what Nesma Yehia, 20, has been going through all her life as a young woman of shorter stature. A mass (...)

24 - 11 - 2020
The perks of closing early
Cairo is known as the city that never sleeps. However, this maybe about to change after a cabinet decision was made a week ago to approve a proposal by the Ministry of Local Development setting the closing hours for shops, workshops, restaurants and (...)

10 - 11 - 2020
Influencers on the Internet
New terms relating to the Internet and social media have been circulating for some time, including “influencer” and many more, with an Internet influencer being an individual who can affect change in society through activities on the Internet, (...)

27 - 10 - 2020
Skin care in the pandemic
After the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, people were advised by their doctors to use hand sanitisers and to wash their hands regularly to avoid catching the disease. However, the excessive use of chemicals on the skin can cause skin (...)

21 - 10 - 2020
Correcting mistaken beliefs
Al-Azhar Islamic Research Academy (AIRA) has launched a campaign to fight Islamophobia. “The Islam they do not know”will be on Al-Azhar's official portal in English and its social media website accounts, includingFacebook, Twitterand (...)

15 - 09 - 2020
More than mothers
Many stay-at-home mothers in Egypt were working women before they became mothers and had to quit their jobs to be able to raise their children. Many would also like to be able to work part-time again. Asmaa Al-Shimi is the stay-at-home mother of two (...)

15 - 09 - 2020
Helping Egyptian families
With financial burdens increasing for many in Egypt due to circumstances that began earlier with the floatation of the Egyptian pound and then extended to the Covid-19 pandemic, getting married has become more complicated even for the country's (...)

01 - 09 - 2020
Flying dreams
Most children are given kites by their parents, and even adults fly kites on various occasions, especially on the beach during the summer holidays. Given the current coronavirus lockdown, though this is now easing, beaches and parks in Egypt are (...)

14 - 07 - 2020
Stop for coffee
In a narrow alley in Omraniya district in the governorate of Giza is a small oriental café of four tables. At 1pm, there is only one patron while in the pre-coronavirus days the café would have been packed. The scene is the same in other cafés after (...)

30 - 06 - 2020
Ballet for all
To learn the art of ballet dancing, a student usually starts training in the early stages of life. It normally also requires a strict diet to be fit enough to stand on tiptoes and to dance. However, Samar Ekladious, the owner of the Cairo fitness (...)

02 - 06 - 2020
Battling the pandemic
The usually busy streets of Cairo were exceptionally quiet after the curfew was imposed on 25 March as part of government efforts to contain the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic that started in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 and has now spread (...)

07 - 04 - 2020
Addressing addiction
Egypt's Fund for Drug Control and Treatment of Addiction (FDCTA), affiliated to the Ministry of Social Solidarity, recently took part in the 63rd session of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) which took place in Vienna, Austria, (...)

10 - 03 - 2020
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