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West Asia
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West Asia
Rashad, Egyptian artist, uses art as means to express revolution of Egypt
“The Artist is close to the society and he gets affected by it the most” –Hany Rashad This is one of the things that Hany Rashad, the revolutionary artist, sees. He started his own way of expressing the revolution of Egypt. After being a participant in the Jan. 25 demonstrations, he…
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East Asia
In the land of legends, South Korea
South Korea is a lot different from its southern neighbor also from the rest of the Asian countries. I’ve finally managed to experience such difference. Visiting South Korea has always been one of my dreams. In Incheon airport I saw where many of my favorite dramas were shot, in Seoul…
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[Nuclear Symposium] The dilemma of Nuclear power
Nuclear power and its usage have been a never-ending dilemma since its beginnings. Nuclear power is the usage of nuclear fission to produce electricity, power, and mass-destruction weapons. As you can see it can be used in utmost good or complete evil, it’s as they say “a double-edged weapon”, something…
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Column
Malala, the girl who stood up against Taliban
Malala Yousafzai is your average 15-years-old girl; she plays with her little brothers, watches cable TV, dreamt of being a doctor and loves going to school. All of that change with her first blog post associated with BBC Urdu, she begins her trip to politics, which eventually led to an…
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Column
Personal blogs turn into best-selling books in Egypt
Blogging has become something we’re really familiar with, especially in the Middle East. Middle East bloggers mainly talk politics, Entertainment, and personal issues and daily problems. But imagine when a girl talks on her blog about her daily adventures in finding her “Future Husband” and then this blog gets turned…
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Is William Shakespeare really who we think he is?
William Shakespeare, the most famous playwright of all time, his plays are translated into almost every languages, you’d say English literature and people without thinking would associate it with the one and only Shakespeare. So for starters who is William Shakespeare? He’s an Englishman born, raised and buried in Stanford,…
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Column
Graffiti proves to be powerful weapon against dictators
Graffiti has always been known to be the voice of those who can’t express themselves freely, those who would write or paint something that would leave that everlasting impact, something very Che Guevara-ish. Although graffiti isn’t something really familiar in your typical Egyptian neighborhood, except for some ultras graffiti. But since the…
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Society
Movies being produced one after another using Egytian revolution as material
It’s not new that Egypt had its revolution –it’s still not decided whether we can say it ended or not- but it was one. And like all revolutions, Cinema has to show it in its own way, with all of its pros and cons. Of course, many movies have been…
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Society
Ko Un, candidate for Nobel literature prize, gets famous in Mideast
“I wanted to become a poet, and I became a poet. I clung to my name as a poet because I committed so many sins by wasting time. Being a poet is a punishment of life imprisonment rather than a choice I made”. This is part of what Ko Un…
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