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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…

My friend Dr. Osama Hamdy, a professor at Harvard University, wrote a painful article entitled, “Why Did They Succeed? And…

In times of crisis, individuals—and nations—can become overwhelmed by details, and then by the details of those details. Attention becomes…

After writing my article Let’s Live, I remembered this book and returned to it, after a dear friend reminded me…

In times of crisis, people can become overwhelmed by details, and then by the details of those details. Attention becomes…

Many medical tumors end with the Latin suffix -oma: fibroma, lymphoma, sarcoma, and many others. And as a form of…

A child is not a vessel we fill with whatever we choose, but a seed with a nature of its…

Whenever I read a great novel, I do not ask only: What happened to its characters? I also ask: Why…