All posts tagged "education"

By Kerning Cultures Mention “brain drain” to any Middle Easterner and they’ll nod sadly: yes, we have...

Palestinian school teacher Hanan Al Hroub, who grew up in a refugee camp, won a $US 1...

By Dara Denney, The Traveller’s Cookbook During university I used to daydream about teaching English abroad. I...

By Nada Deyaa’ In Baharwa, a small village near Ayat in the governorate of Giza, fresh air...

By Nada Deyaa’ Far away from the modernity of Cairo, in a small village located named Al-Ma’abda...

By Rana Kamaly, BECAUSE “With Souq el Kher, we have the idea of the closed circle, where...

After her husband died, 70-year-old Ezz Abdallah felt that the only way she could support her family...

By Jihad Abaza, Aswat Masriya The number of detained students cited in the interior ministry’s statement on...

Egypt’s Administrative Court has upheld a ban on women professors wearing the Islamic niqab at Cairo University,...

Imagine being told you can not return to school until you have 1000 pounds ($US 128). Imagine you’re...

By Nourhan Fahmy, Aswat Masriya The Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education published a six-point statement Saturday regarding...

At a presidential meeting Wednesday with a consultative council of experts and scholars, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah...

In a country where the total unemployment rate amounts to 12.9 percent, rebuilding a sustainable momentum for...

Officials from the Agouza neighborhood have begun a campaign to decrease the number of students who skip...

Schoolchildren have been forced to clean classrooms and teachers’ offices at the end of the school day...

More than 35 percent of students between the ages of 12 and 15 in Egypt do not...

With the rising responsibilities and pressures of adulthood, reminiscing about the good old schooldays when life was...