Ashraf Aboul-Yazid’s A Backyard Garden is a profoundly human, polyphonic novel set in contemporary Egypt. It weaves together the lives of individuals in the village of Kafr El-Sarai, focusing particularly on the enigmatic figure of Sayyid
At every stage of nation building, a question arises that may seem simple on the surface: “What do we do with the youth?” But in truth, it is not a question about an age group; it is a question about the spirit of a nation, its dynamism, and
In 1954, the American psychologist Abraham Maslow introduced what became known as the “Hierarchy of Needs,” which included physiological needs, safety, social belonging, self-esteem, and self-actualization. But today, in 2025, we are
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Immigration lawyer Hateem Ali on how quotas on overseas players affect Premier League teams’ business during the January transfer window.
Although we now have a new government, we are unlikely to see any dramatic changes to the Governing Body
At the end of the Second World War in 1945, following the surrender of Germany and Japan, we were living in a ground-floor apartment on Hammouda Street, just a few meters from the southwestern outer wall of Abdeen Palace. This was due to the lack of available accommodation in my grandfather’s building at 24 Mostafa Kamel Street in the Abdeen district upon our return from Britain. I was
