LAST week, when I was in el-Zagazig visiting my family, I got to meet one of the October War heroes. Mohamed el-Masri (62) demolished 27 Israeli tanks on October 7, 1973.
He is not Superman, James Bond or a Hollywood star, but an ordinary fellow who (...)
EGYPT, the mother of the world, dates back to the prehistoric era, when man led a primitive, wild sort of life. He used to hunt animals for food and even his fellow man, plundering whatever he could from him.
He wandered from land to land and place (...)
THIS beautiful place is home to many natural treasures, including Egypt's biggest iron mines.
Minerals such as basalt, alabaster, manganese and dolomite are found in the mines there, while it boasts Pharaonic, Roman, Coptic and Islamic monuments. (...)
IN February, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron and the Bilal Mosque in Bethlehem, both in the Palestinian city of West Bank, to be designated as Jewish heritage sites.
Even worse, an Israeli professor (...)
UNFORTUNATELY, it's only one day on which we wish our moms: a Happy Mother's Day. Even even if we kept saying the same phrase everyday all over the year, this wouldn't give mom her due.
Egypt first celebrated Mother's Day in 1956 after twin (...)
WE are already well into the second half of the Egyptian First Division football league season and the competition between the clubs is fierce.
The start of the second half of the season coincided with the end of the mid-year school break.
In the (...)
WHEN the Crusades started, Eissa el-Awam, a Christian, was Saladin's most important leader. Eissa knew that the Crusaders really wanted to occupy our precious country.
They came hungry for its blessings and its geographical and strategic position (...)
"TOMORROW is the Feast," which has been named as one of the ten most famous short stories in the Egypt and the Middle East, has been translated into Italian.
Critic Maria Luisa Albano, a literature professor at Rome University, added my story to her (...)