All posts tagged "identity"

The first vivid memory I have of Arabic class was plotting how to skip it; my last...

Growing up, Arabic was not a language spoken inside home or even outside of home; it was...

“You brought Egypt to Vegas! This Koshary took me years back home,” expresses one Egyptian customer during...

On Thursday morning, a daily Egypt ‘room’ on Clubhouse rocketed to 2,000 listeners, sparking joy and amazement...

Is art political? It is, perhaps, the most vulnerable medium to express our internal and external turmoil...

The real experience of growing up as a third culture kid is a story that isn’t often...

Most people do not stop to ask why the Middle East has been labelled as such. As...

Open and honest conversations are integral to achieving cultural and societal change. It is by allowing people...

“I am beautiful because I am black,” is a statement once said by supermodel Iman Abdulmajid. These...

If you felt distressed, deeply disturbed and agonized by just some of the stories that were published...

Egyptian actor Hesham Selim has won praise on social media after revealing his 26-year-old son Nour is...

This piece is not going to be all about the struggles of having an identity crisis resulting...

“If a hundred things separate us, soccer unites us.” These opening lyrics to the viral African Cup...

Being a first-generation Australian-born Egyptian is confusing. I grew up on Vegemite (Egypt’s closest equivalent is Mesh)...

Around fifty years ago, Gamal Abdel Nasser swept inside the house of each Arab man with a...

Wandering through the Siwan marketplace, passing cartons filled with dates freshly picked from the towering palm trees,...

Leaving Egypt to study abroad or work creates a change in us, which is often hidden out...