Graffiti was part of the 25 January Revolution from the start. From the movie stars and quotations that mocked the political status quo down to the faces of the martyrs on the streets, the walls told it all.
Women's issues and women's rights have (...)
Following widespread sexual harassment and physical assault against women, hindering women's development and participation for many years, Egypt's National Council for Women (NCW) proposed a new law against sexual harassment containing a minimum (...)
A little failure doesn't hurt. Or at least that is what 28-year-old Amr Ismail thought when he started to fail courses in college. Now, graduating 11 years later has given him quite a different perspective.
After 11 years of enrolment, Ismail had (...)
As you are about to bring your last academic year of secondary education to a close, you also need to learn about the universities' doors that can open up and take you to a well paved future with opportunities of quality education, character (...)
This year, on his visit to Egypt, it appears that Cupid left his love arrow in heaven and decided to carry an assault weapon instead, replacing Valentine's gifts and its spirit with Molotov cocktails and burning tyres surrounding each political (...)
Overwhelmed by the dozens balls you keep juggling in the air, you are tired and feel like giving up or escaping from your world. But you're wrong; that's not the solution. You have the keys that control your life.
It might be hard for many Egyptians (...)
Nada Barakat tells a tale of success in special needs
A living dream of survival and success, of hard work and happiness achieved every second by a group of young blind fighters who ended their classification as special needs and now maintain a (...)
Nada Barakat reviews the newest trend -- assessment pages on the net
On the journey toward democracy young political activists are maximising the Internet's role in the Egyptian revolution by introducing online modern tools to monitor and assess the (...)
Nada Barakat walks with those who took the road to recovery
A programme of 12 steps can change lives and perspectives, saving millions of addicts around the globe by accompanying them on their journey from the agony, pain and darkness of drugs to a (...)
Nada Barakat profiles the lawyer defending his own case
The political future of Ziad El-Oleimi, a member of parliament, is at risk. His membership is currently being reviewed by parliament's special bureau after he denounced the ruling Supreme (...)
Nada Barakat explores the world of voluntary work
If such things could be measured, the highest rate of participation by volunteer youths was recorded immediately after the 25 January Revolution. The revolutionary spirit increased Egyptians' sense (...)
Once noted for its security, Egypt is now suffering from some of the same problems as other countries, writes Nada Barakat
After recent reports of armed robberies, kidnappings and carjackings in Egypt, a growing sense of insecurity has made people (...)
For the first few weeks after the January Revolution, a new civic spirit spread throughout Egypt's towns and cities. One year on, it seems to have vanished, says Nada Barakat
Bumper stickers stating a new post-revolutionary morality were a common (...)
It was hard work to turn the 480 metre-long wall in the Al Arab district of Maadi, from a dumping ground to a colourful artistic scene, full of portraits and patriotic slogans.
‘Egypt in colours' is an initiative started in February 2011 by five (...)
The Dreams Recorder group performed their first concert in Egypt on Thursday at Al Azhar park. The project, born in Tunis, brings together Egyptian and Tunisian artists with the aim of starting a new trend in music
The team performed their first (...)
The Egyptian Theater House, along with the Egyptian Civil Defense force, in an effort to avoid the recurrence of tragic fire accidents which have endangered lives and damaged important cultural spaces, is securing both private and state-owned (...)
Sophisticated coiled lines connected together creating a fascinating painting, the lines carrying different religious and moral messages, all perfectly written out in calligraphic inscriptions designed by Musaad Khudair, senior calligrapher and (...)
On a stage awash in dramatic spotlights and equipped with giant, thumping speakers, six barefoot dancers from Ferqet el-Samteen(Silent Troupe) surround a black-clad dancer, a younger boy whose careful steps grow increasingly anxious as the circle (...)
A new red and blue tent, bright colors and huge theater lights are some of the changes introduced by renovations to the National Circus in Agouza, soon to be re-opened with the performance “The Dream.”
Artists and management of the circus are (...)