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In a world increasingly defined by volume rather than value, Hossam Badrawi, a physician, politician, and former head of the…

Is obedience a virtue, or is it a form of submission that excludes reason? Do we raise our children to…

Those who believe that what happens in politics can be explained by coincidence are mistaken. Politics, by its nature, is…

For many years — for decades — we lived inside a grand narrative that claimed the world, despite its contradictions,…

The year 2026 did not begin with hope, but with warning signs.States are disintegrating, presidents are being arrested beyond their…

This year marks eighty years since the birth of my dear friend, His Eminence the Grand Imam Dr. Ahmed El-Tayeb,…

What the world is experiencing today is not a moral struggle between good and evil, nor a values-based confrontation between…

I am not an economist, but I asked myself a logical question:If all the countries of the world—rich and poor—are…

I wrote a eulogy for Dr. Mourad Wahba, and I received more than twenty thousand beautiful and refined comments. But…

You may notice that as people grow older, they no longer love, grieve, or rejoice with the same intensity or…

Education in the twenty-first century is no longer merely the transmission of knowledge; it has become a moral and civilizational…

At the very moment when the constitution places its hand on the heart of the nation and swears equality, a…

Citizenship is not an administrative status, nor a rigid legal description. It is a moral relationship between the individual and…

Why does everything move and rotate? If we contemplate the universe deeply, we will discover a truth that neither the…

We welcome a new year while still weighed down by what the departing year has left behind.2025 was harsh on…

Nations do not disappear suddenly, nor are they erased from maps overnight. What usually happens is something quieter—and far more…

Some mothers—patients of mine and members of civil society organizations I support—contacted me, deeply upset about the date of a…

Like many others, I receive WhatsApp messages every Friday—sometimes greetings for occasions, sometimes prayers. When you have a large number…

In Egyptian colloquial language, there is a special kind of genius. We say, “So-and-so is doing fine,” meaning he is…

Turtles are older than dinosaurs.The earliest known ancestors of turtles appeared about 220–240 million years ago (late Triassic period), roughly…