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Old Ibren
Old Ibren
By: Abdul Adan on: Thursday 16 November 2017 - Genre: Stories

Ibren Issak, an elderly resident of El-Adawa, sat at a table at Hassanow’s - a cheap restaurant on the main road that relies on travellers for its business. Since the tribal war had broken out,...

MAKING CORRECTIONS
MAKING CORRECTIONS
By: Abdul Adan on: Thursday 16 November 2017 - Genre: Stories

“For about six months now,” said Khalid to Fr. Woodrath, his British neighbour and missionary. “I have been contemplating a lot. The human race is in big trouble and I have come to f...

The Cell
The Cell
Translated from Arabic Into English by Mona Khedr
By: Mona Namoury on: Thursday 16 November 2017 - Genre: Stories

He went into her luxurious cell. As usual, she was drawing on all sides of the cell's walls: skies, roses, trees and birds ... He could hear her birds chirping; he could feel the heat of her sun c...

The Last Jar of Home-made Strawberry Jam
The Last Jar of Home-made Strawberry Jam
By: Mona Namoury on: Thursday 16 November 2017 - Genre: Stories

Days went by as Merna, a professional translator, struggled with the translation of a poem. Seduced by Stevie Smith’s short, easy-dictioned poem, “Not Waving But Drowning”, Merna had...

Every time she came the moon eclipsed
Every time she came the moon eclipsed
Translated from Arabic by: Al Salim
By: Lubna Yaseen on: Thursday 16 November 2017 - Genre: Stories

She’s got a face of a moon … I got her strait hair... And her beautiful stature... She’s got the smile of a moon... And I got my tears And a lantern of vigilance… Cauti...

Grow Up
Grow Up
From Sylvia Petter's Back Burning
By: Sylvia Petter on: Thursday 16 November 2017 - Genre: Stories

It’s not that I ever wanted to be anything when I grew up. I just didn’t want to grow up. So when grownups didn’t get an answer to the ‘be’ question straight away, they...

WHAT TO DO FOR THE ENVIRONMENT IN EGYPT
WHAT TO DO FOR THE ENVIRONMENT IN EGYPT
By: Salah Hassanein on: Thursday 16 November 2017 - Genre: Essays

THE CHALLENGE The fast increase in air, water and soil pollution in Egypt has become a real threat to the people’s health. If we continue the present course, we shall be faced with a catastro...

The History of Planet Earth
The History of Planet Earth
By: Salah Hassanein on: Thursday 16 November 2017 - Genre: Science

If we compress the history of our plant earth  (4.5 Billion years) in one year, we will find some amazing facts. In the first four months of that year, the earth was very inhospitable, viole...

تجربتي في تبسيط "بيريه الحكيم" للأطفال
تجربتي في تبسيط "بيريه الحكيم" للأطفال
By: Ahmed Shablool on: Thursday 16 November 2017 - Genre: Essays

بدأت علاقتي بأدب الأطفال عندما رزقني الله سبحانه وتعالى طفلين، فوجدت أنه من الواجب الأدبي أن أكتب لهما ولجيلهما، بعد أن كتبت لنفسي ما يقرب من خمسة عشر عاما قبل وجودهما في الحياة. ومن هنا خضت هذه التجر...

الإعجاز العلمى للقرآن
الإعجاز العلمى للقرآن
By: Wael Fawzy on: Thursday 16 November 2017 - Genre: Philosophy and Religion

الفرق بين الرسول و النبي هو أن الرسول قد أُوحي إليه بشرع يعمل به و يبلغه إلي غيره، أما النبي فهو من أُوحي إليه بشرع يعمل به و لا يجب عليه تبليغه إلي غيره00        ...

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