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Articles of the author Abeya El Bakry
‘Wouldn't it be lovely?'
For a refreshing change, during the past year, 2,700 secondary students in Barageel, an underprivileged area in Giza, were offered a chance to change their mindset. For a long time now, Egyptians have been complaining about the educational system, its stiff curricula, heavy study load and (...)

04 - 06 - 2013
People of the soil
Salasel, a three-year UNDP project, has worked on helping small landowners in Upper Egypt to become investors in the agricultural sector by adding value to harvests from very small plots of land. A series of marketing events and field trips to Upper Egypt were designed to develop small landowners' (...)

03 - 01 - 2013
Don't forget the Villa Aghion
There is far more to a historic villa than just its walls and floors, argues Abeya El-Bakry Architects and engineers, students, professors and professionals took to the streets recently to protest against the threat hanging over the Villa Aghion, one of Alexandria's leading architectural landmarks (...)

25 - 10 - 2012
Raising children at a critical time
As Egypt goes through a period of political and social change, what do children need in order to achieve integrated cultural growth, asks Abeya El-Bakry One of the questions many parents have to address is how to develop their children's self-reliance and independence. In kindergarten classes, (...)

28 - 06 - 2012
Dreaming of change
If teenagers set out to bring change to their schools and the educational curriculum, what chances do they have of success, asks Abeya El-Bakry Young people in Egypt are sometimes seen as being hard to please, or as not knowing what they want, or not being aware that they have it easier than their (...)

10 - 05 - 2012
'It's all about trust'
Carlos Valenzuela, chief technical advisor to the UNDP in Egypt, talks to Abeya El-Bakry about the management of elections and the Arab Spring In an event designed to develop trust among stakeholders taking part in the country's elections, a UNDP forum was held recently in Cairo to share (...)

03 - 05 - 2012
"What's going on in our children's minds?"
Abeya El-Bakry conveys the views of Egyptian children on sociopolitical transformation A three-year-old sat on her father's shoulder among the crowds, waving the Egyptian flag and enthusiastically crying Tahya Masr (Long live Egypt); many days earlier, a thirteen-year-old boy had been shot, one of (...)

19 - 04 - 2012
What do today's children read?
Though reading venues for children exist throughout Egypt, there are still worries about how assiduously they use them, says Abeya El-Bakry In our memories children reading books tend to be quiet and shy, sitting in secluded corners or in their own dream worlds, and when they speak we hear pure and (...)

06 - 10 - 2011
Lighting up the earth
Abeya El-Bakry witnesses the famous Ramadan lanterns illuminating the streets and alleyways of Islamic Cairo Every year, people wait for Ramadan as the beginning of a spiritual new year and a time to start a new quest for spiritual awakening. In Islamic Cairo, this renewal is marked by streets (...)

11 - 08 - 2011
A sober Christmas in Alexandria
Orthodox Christmas was celebrated under especially tight security at the Two Saints Church in Sidi Bishr this year, as demonstrators nearby pleaded for peace, writes Abeya El-Bakry The Two Saints Church in Sidi Bishr, Alexandria, the scene of the New Year's Eve bombing, is at the centre of four (...)

13 - 01 - 2011
Not all bad?
Violence may have seemed to be everywhere in 2010, but the year also saw the development of some significant voices for peace, writes Abeya El-Bakry Demonstrations against the killing of Khaled Said on the hands of the police An overview of events in 2010 screams violence in all its forms. From (...)

30 - 12 - 2010
Briefs
Egypt and Russia's FTA in store EGYPT and Russia will start negotiating a free trade agreement in 2011. The announcement was made this week by Egyptian Minister of Trade and Industry Rachid Mohamed Rachid during a press conference with his Russian counterpart, Viktor Khristenko. Khristenko was in (...)

23 - 12 - 2010
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