2026 Collective Activities & Articles

In moments of great turmoil, politics tends to reduce the world to sharp binaries:one camp versus another, one axis against…

Who are our friends and who are our enemies? Why has there been estrangement between Egypt and Iran, and is…

Continuing my article from the Wednesday before last about teaching Arabic in the pre-school stage, I found—based on my experience…

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, and in response to a question from one of my patients about the…

I read a beautiful article by Mohamed Abdel Quddous titled boldly: “God Is My Friend.”I smiled as I read it,…

In international relations, a state may possess the greatest military and economic power, yet what gives it lasting influence is…

Sometimes major transformations do not begin with dramatic political decisions, but with a sentence spoken in a moment of candor…

Shaping Collective Consciousness in the Middle East By Hossam Badrawi In the Middle East, wars do not begin when rockets…

I reflected on the relationship between habituation, the fading of wonder, and the withdrawal of passion in human relationships, and…

At every stage of human history, a silent question has echoed:Do nations learn from their tragedies, or do they reproduce…

Not every colloquial dialect is simple, and not every classical form is elevated. In Arouh Le-Mien, Egyptian colloquial Arabic appears…

Politics, at its core, is the management of possibilities—not of fears. Yet when societies pass through moments of severe turmoil,…

A new divide is opening up not merely between the developed and the developing nations, but also between those who…

A child does not enter school at the age of six as a blank page.They enter carrying a whole world…

I begin with developments in artificial intelligence and move toward the philosophical core. 1. Symbolic Regression Between 2020–2023, AI systems…

Every major power reshaping humanity has been more than a tool. Fire was not warmth; it was existential transformation.The printing…

Each time I enter a hotel, an airport, or even stop at a highway checkpoint in our beloved Egypt, I…

In an age where instant gratification multiplies endlessly—where food, information, and pleasure are no farther than a fingertip—fasting appears as…

When we speak of “investment in education,” perspectives diverge and concepts become blurred. Some understand investment as a financial project…

Neoliberalism, Socialism, and Social Liberalism: A Critical Reading in Light of the Egyptian Experience Since the end of the twentieth…