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Articles of the author Gihan Shahine
For love of the Prophet's companions
The holy month of Ramadan and the months preceding it have always been a time when droves of Muslim worshippers, particularly Sufis, flock to seek the spiritual fulfilment and blessings of well-known members of the prophet's family (ahl al-beit) and (...)

27 - 04 - 2021
Exploring the post-pandemic world
“And do not worry that life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?” Persian poet Jalaleddin Mohamed Al-Rumi (1207-1273 CE) It was the hour before a curfew was imposed in Cairo on the (...)

20 - 12 - 2020
Looking to Africa first
The US and Kenyan governments launched negotiations on a free-trade agreement (FTA) between the two countries in early July. The topic raises a few salient questions, which initially revolve around the reasons that led these two countries to (...)

25 - 08 - 2020
Memories of Egypt's kiswa
Proclaim to men the pilgrimage: they will come to thee on foot and on every lean camel, coming from every remote path —Quran, Surat Al-Hajj This time of the year has a particular spiritual significance in the hearts of millions of Muslims around the (...)

21 - 07 - 2020
Understanding the children of the Nile
It was early afternoon in the Upper Egyptian village of Abu Djoud in Luxor. Children were cheering and playing traditional games in unpaved alleyways in front of their homes. Then they headed for a felucca ride on the Nile that their village (...)

18 - 02 - 2020
For love of the Prophet Mohamed
“The president of the assembly, Al-Sayeda Zeinab, listens attentively to the lamentations of all the creatures, even the lament of trees lashed by the wind.” From The Book of Illuminations by Egyptian novelist and writer Gamal Al-Ghitani (...)

29 - 05 - 2019
For love of the Prophet Mohamed
“The president of the assembly, Al-Sayeda Zeinab, listens attentively to the lamentations of all the creatures, even the lament of trees lashed by the wind.” From The Book of Illuminations by Egyptian novelist and writer Gamal Al-Ghitani (...)

23 - 05 - 2019
After the Christchurch massacre
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people are so full of doubts — philosopher Bertrand Russell, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1950 The Christchurch massacre It did not occur to (...)

02 - 05 - 2019
Fighting poverty in Upper Egypt
Um Ismail, an uneducated widowed mother of three living in an impoverished village in Sohag in Upper Egypt, often has a hard time coping with looking after her elderly bed-ridden mother in her hometown and keeping her job in Cairo to provide food (...)

16 - 03 - 2019
Fighting poverty in Upper Egypt
Um Ismail, an uneducated widowed mother of three living in an impoverished village in Sohag in Upper Egypt, often has a hard time coping with looking after her elderly bed-ridden mother in her hometown and keeping her job in Cairo to provide food (...)

07 - 03 - 2019
Welcome to the world of life-coaching
“Know your own happiness. Want for nothing but patience —or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.” Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility. When “life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings,” as English novelist Jane Austen put it (...)

13 - 01 - 2019
Welcome to the world of life-coaching
“Know your own happiness. Want for nothing but patience —or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope.” Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility. When “life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings,” as English novelist Jane Austen put it (...)

03 - 01 - 2019
Debating birth control
“I never wanted to have four children. I had planned for only two,” said 39-year-old Shaimaa in a frustrated tone. Not that Shaimaa did not like children, but she explained that the financial burden of having to raise four children had itself been (...)

01 - 11 - 2018
Remembering the October ruse
The October 1973 War went down in history as the first Egyptian military victory over the Israeli entity. Its documented events were the product of an Egyptian military undertaking that enthralled the world. The excellence of Egyptian commanders was (...)

26 - 10 - 2018
Remembering the October ruse
The October 1973 War went down in history as the first Egyptian military victory over the Israeli entity. Its documented events were the product of an Egyptian military undertaking that enthralled the world. The excellence of Egyptian commanders was (...)

25 - 10 - 2018
Cairo heritage back on track
It was 18 April, World Heritage Day, and the newly-refurbished Al-Sherifeen Street in Downtown Cairo was bedecked with 19th-century-style lights. Painters were drawing sketches and seeking inspiration from the area's history, while musicians were (...)

06 - 09 - 2018
The Sufi message of love
“When you step into the zone of love, language as we know it becomes obsolete. That which cannot be put into words can only be grasped through silence.” — The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak Silence, indeed, seemed to be the language of many (...)

31 - 05 - 2018
Rejuvenation of a green epoch
And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things From God's Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) There is, perhaps, no better testimony of how nature's “dearest freshness” still lives “deep down (...)

12 - 04 - 2018
Exploring Cairo: A stroll through historic Downtown
It was on a cold winter afternoon that we started our one-hour stroll down what is perhaps Cairo's most fascinating memory lane. We had hardly stepped out of the offices of the magazine Mantiqti on Elwi Street in the Al-Borsa district when Tarek (...)

04 - 03 - 2018
Saving Cairo on the Nile
The fresh paint on dozens of newly refurbished historic buildings in Downtown Cairo not only gives a new lease of life to the city's 19th-century centre, known as Khedival Cairo, but also allows the buildings themselves to gaze out in defiance of (...)

03 - 03 - 2018
Chronicle of a Downtown walk
It was on a cold winter afternoon that we started our one-hour stroll down Cairo's perhaps most fascinating memory lane. We had hardly stepped out of the offices of the magazine Mantiqti on Elwi Street in the Al-Borsa district when Tarek Atia, my (...)

01 - 03 - 2018
Saving Cairo on the Nile
The fresh paint on dozens of newly refurbished historic buildings in Downtown Cairo not only gives a new lease of life to the city's 19th-century centre, known as Khedival Cairo, but also allows the buildings themselves to gaze out in defiance of (...)

01 - 03 - 2018
Challenging times for veiled women
Many veiled women living in the West may have found great comfort in the heartening call of President of Austria Alexander Van der Bellen for all women to wear headscarves in solidarity with Muslims and fight what he described as “rampant (...)

17 - 01 - 2018
World trade at a crossroads
Is Trumpism affecting the World Trade Organisation (WTO)? Is the WTO, a negotiating forum on international trade rules and regulations, still relevant? Can developing countries maintain their stakes in the WTO? Is the WTO losing steam? What is the (...)

07 - 12 - 2017
Not a lack of discipline
The cool morning breeze of the back-to-school season and the sound of school buses bring memories of anxiety rather than happiness to Ahmed's mother. It is not just that Ahmed used to cry every morning as he took the bus to school. “He was a (...)

28 - 09 - 2017
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