Egypt: From Cosmopolitanism to Xenophobia
The focus this month in Future Challenges is on global citizens and migration, and how they are changing the faces of our cities every day. In today’s world travel is [...]
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Egypt: Heaven or Hell for Syrian Refugees?
Out of the one and a half million Syrians living in Egypt, more than 300,000 have recently come here seeking a safe haven from the never ending shelling and bombing [...]
The Win-Win of Improving the Status of Women Employment in Egypt
Bella Abzug, a late feminist activist and American politician is famously quoted as having stated, regarding the equality of men and women in the workplace: “The test of whether or [...]
Refugee brides: the bounties of war
“There are many who don’t wish to sleep for fear of nightmares. Sadly, there are many who don’t wish to wake for the same fear.” (Richelle Goodrich) It’s two years [...]
The Politics of Water Sharing in the Nile Basin
The Nile: There Won’t Be Enough for Everybody Is the post-revolution change in Egyptian leadership bringing about a shift in foreign policy towards the nations of the Nile Basin? The [...]
Egypt: Let’s play politics not the victim game!
Last Saturday, some Egyptian activists went to demonstrate at the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters. They demonstrated by drawing arrows on the street pointing to the headquarters and proclaiming, “here lies the [...]
The untold story: the disenchantment of women in the Arab World
Look at the timeline of events in the Arab Spring and you will see that women have played a huge role in its development. Yet the contribution women make to [...]
Nelly Ali: Fighting for Cairo’s street children and mothers
Nelly Ali sometimes carries a magic wand in her bag. She uses Twitter to fundraise for clothes for those kids (Cairo street children and mothers). She’s a strong woman tirelessly [...]
Teen girl raped in Egypt speaks out, defies abuse
There she was, sitting in a sweltering sitting room in Cairo, her scarred face haloed by her Islamic headscarf, her pregnant belly pushing out a bit, her 18-year-old hands resting lightly in her lap. Her name is Ghada, and she is one of the bravest women I have ever met.
The War on Cancer and the Cancer of War
Every single day, people die of epidemics and diseases. Every single day, people kill each other over differences in beliefs and cultures. Every single day, souls leave our planet, heading [...]
Improving Good Governance in Africa, The Role of Mo Ibrahim Foundation
What are the mechanisms that can be utilized in order to accurately assess whether a country abides by the values of good governance or drifts away from them? The questions [...]
The Egyptian Cure Bank: A Solution for the Health Care Challenge
If you tell me that banks are institutions solely responsible for financial transactions such as lending and investing and their primary objective is the maximization of profit, well, you are [...]
Egypt: The plight of health institutions
Out of the 91 million people who make up the total population of Egypt, only 83 million currently live in Egypt, according to the Egyptian Central Agency for Public Mobilization and [...]
2012: The Brotherhood’s achievements, the People’s setbacks
Ever since the eruption of the mass uprisings in 25 January 2011, the face of politically stagnant Egypt has changed forever. 2011 was a year packed with unexpected events, unpredictable [...]
Music and Medicine: A global NGO fundraiser to save lives in Egypt.
Let’s face it- healthcare is not the top priority of many of our governments. At least in the Middle East, it certainly isn’t. Many patients in Egypt resort to private [...]
The Other Reasons Egyptian Youths Seek Education or Employment Abroad.
Immigration is largely looked at through an economic prism. But, that’s not all there is to it. In a country like Egypt, where competition for employment is fierce, and the [...]
Egypt: The Right to Water
Water is indispensable to human life. As a basic need, it is highly vulnerable to exploitation and has been recognized as a human right in several international human rights treaties [...]
Heartbreak by the Nile
Globalization has great benefits and great side effects. When the global economy is doing well, a lot of people try moving to the developed world for a better life while [...]
Us and the U.S.!
Here in the Middle East, people always point to the United States whenever they have any kind of problem. They either blame the U.S. for intervening in their countries national [...]
Prospects of Democracy for Egypt’s Youth Bulge
“Youth’s energy, innovation and talent, can only bring the best for Egypt if it is targeted in the right direction,” Nahla Zeitoun of UNDP tells Future Challenges. Programme Analyst at [...]
Bad Health Care: The Pandemics of Poverty
The content package of this post relates to the “Death Threat,” and addresses non-communicable diseases. The one I want to speak about is poverty. Because all the other NCDs you [...]
Noam Chomsky Lectures on the “grim shadows” facing the world today
World-renowned linguist and political analyst Noam Chomsky spoke to 1000 Egyptians at the American University in Cairo (AUC) on 23 October in a lecture entitled “Emerging World Order and the Arab Spring.” The [...]
Defaming Religion: The New Tool to Silence Opposition in Egypt
It’s been well over three months since Muslim Brotherhood Freedom and Justice Party ex-leader Mohammed Morsi was sworn in as Egypt’s first democratically elected, post-revolutionary, non-military president and yet it [...]
Education Strikes
The education sector, deemed one of the most important pillars of development in post-Arab Spring Egypt, is struggling as we approach the second anniversary of the January 25 revolution. Educators [...]
Will There Be A Rollback On Democracy In Egypt ?
Egypt is currently under official Islamist rule. Following a proud revolution that promoted ideals of human rights, democracy, opportunity, and better living for all, the Egyptian society across the spectrum [...]
