House of Curiosity...

With so much sadness, we say goodbye to one of the most celebrated and most controversial Arab personalities.  
 
Egyptian film-maker Youssef Chahine, died on today aged 82 after several weeks in a coma. A funeral ceremony will be held in Cairo on Monday. He will buried in the family crypt in Alexandria where he was born.
 
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I was invited to a meeting yesterday. I was supposed to tell them about my project. I got there only to find out that the meeting was this kind of meeting…
Oh horror! I was a unique figure among all these men!
When my turn came to speak, Tayseer gave me the microphone. The moderator, a [...]

As I was flicking through my pictures, I found those two… they were taken two years ago in the heart of Cairo… I was fascinated with the idea of a non-fiction fiction…  and even though it was my least day in Cairo, I made it a mission to find out if the building was real [...]

I have been inspired to write this post by a group of AIDS patient with whom I have been working recently. They were telling me about the harsh consequences they have to go through on daily basis because they are not anonymous.
But why are you not anonymous, I asked naively? 
And they took me on [...]

While the world is busy debating the ethics and the effects of exploring water springs on Mars, planet Wadi Al Seer is busy debating who to complain to about sewage problems….
 
 

Honestly, the ravings of ten of Nasa’s fevered imaginations could not come up with more inventive schemes to minimize waste, in order to save the [...]