In light of October recognized breast cancer awareness month, Cairo Marriot Hotel hosted a one-of-a-kind makeup workshop on 10 November called “Be Beautiful” for female cancer patients to help them feel beautiful during their chemotherapy. “Be Beautiful” is a program that is based in Lebanon and United Arab Emirates founded by cardiologist Dina Omar. The program consists of workshops that offer women makeup tips and nutritional advice as well as mental health support groups. This month it will be introduced to at least seven hospitals in Cairo and hope to expand to five governorates within the year. Omar hopes to cater towards at least 5,000 Egyptian women in the first year. Hanadi el-Imam, founder of Hoda el-Imam Foundation, is responsible for organizing the workshops in Egypt along with Omar. She believes that if the patients feel good about themselves and feed their body the right nutritions, it will have s positive impact of their mental health and this ultimately “strengthens their immune system.” Merhan Khalil was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a blood plasma cancer. She got a bone marrow transplant and started chemotherapy in 2012. One of the most common side…
