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Every 250 to 400 years, the global power structure is reset. We are now in the middle of one of…

Why Do We Restart Education Reform Every Few Years? When I joined seventy intellectuals, thinkers, and education experts in drafting…

There is one phrase that can silence even the most articulate speaker in a single Arab discussion: “You’re just theorizing.”…

When I joined seventy intellectuals, thinkers, and education experts in formulating Egypt’s Vision for Education 2030 in 2014, we were…

I did not read the news of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine as a casual reader. I…

  An artwork by Dalia Hamouda, adapted by me. I have spent my life surrounded by women, each of whom…

A mother gives to her child before the child even knows how to receive. In the first minute after birth,…

At this very second, as you read this line, more particles are passing through your body than the total number…

What has been happening in France in recent days has caught my attention—not simply because hundreds of thousands of people…

La Fontaine told the story of a great oak tree that looked with some arrogance at a slender reed bending…

A photograph of my brother Hamdy, who returned from his scholarship at Oxford after earning his PhD and, like many…

Everything we see, hear, smell, and touch is not the world as it exists in itself, but rather a translation…

Last year, I followed a strange paradox: the government submitted the Code of Criminal Procedure, Parliament approved it, and the…

The End of What We Know, Not the End of Existence By Hossam Badrawi There are books that try to…

A few days ago, I read a report in The New York Times about U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy…

A reading of the Chinese President’s visit to Washington—and his absence from New York. Last week, nearly 130 heads of…

The 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly was held under a slogan calling for “restoring trust and managing…

Yesterday, I read in Al-Masry Al-Youm an article by Dr. Amr Hashem Rabie titled, “Abiy Ahmed’s Regime Is Faltering: Should…

Whenever one of us wants to emphasize the importance of an issue, we say that it “affects national security.” We…

From the perspective of professional experience, a patient may walk into a doctor’s office carrying a neat file of laboratory…