I love the American saying “ if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and it looks like a duck it’s got to be a duck ” for those that...

Roots of the January 25 Revolution in Egypt The powerful Egyptian rap Ded el Hekomah is the anthem of the Egyptian Revolution. News anal...

Egyptians & Identity In a post colonial world, an Egyptian living in the west suffers from the negative stereotypes attached to Ar...

I am sitting at a large table covered with nice white cloth, laid out for three course dinners for ten guests. Only eight of us are at th...

An emotional journey with many fleeting thoughts about what to expect … a twinge of fear, of understanding, of anticipation and a touch of s...

This is easily the best book I can recommend to anyone on the Iraq war. Anthony Shadid, a third generation Arab American, who speaks flue...

I was only seven years old then, but I still remember the frightening sound of the Israeli war planes up in the sky and the sound of the di...

I woke up yesterday to morning papers and internet news showing pictures of angry people on the streets of Cairo. A boatful of poor Egyptia...

"God who told the first killer, Cain, “The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to Me from the ground.”…To His justice, the blood o...

Often time as I run in Boston my mind takes me back to Cairo, the city of my childhood, and I look at the Charles River but I really see...