On World No Tobacco Day 2015, Mada Masr releases an infograph that breaks down the smoking demographics of the country, and the health and monetary costs of keeping up this…
“We have given up our feminine clothes for the military uniform,” read two large banners held up by a group of 15 young women outside Cairo University. “Listen to me:…
Sherif leans on the wall for support as he walks towards his bed, while his wife Thanaa lies opposite him in the HIV/AIDS department of Abbasseya Fever Hospital. In…
An automated screen in front of the Khulafa al-Rashedeen mosque in Cairo’s Heliopolis neighborhood read “The District of Masr al-Gedida.” The guard pointed to the Merryland celebration hall adjacent to…
Tramadol has been the drug of choice in Egypt for years, due to its affordability and availability. Before February 2015, a strip cost as little at LE15 to LE30. …
Education Minister Moheb al-Rafie said that the ministry is working on “cleansing school curriculum from lessons that incite violence,” the privately owned newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm reported on Monday. Rafie’s remarks…
«On the occasion of International Women’s Day, Mada Masr published an article “An Alternative Reading of Feminist Discourse.” In this article, the author — a self-proclaimed…»
99.3% of Egyptian women experience sexual harassment. 82.6% say they feel unsafe in the street.
«“I still struggle with visuals of my rape. I recall the words he used to break my soul and, although a year has passed, not a…»
Sheikh Hamada sits by the lake to eat his lunch and recounts times gone by. “In the old days, the water was so clear,” he remembers. “You could throw something…
Ahmed Fouad is an employee at the Health Ministry in Alexandria. He’s also one of the roughly 75,000 dwarfs* currently living in Egypt — and his job makes him a minority…
Although Egypt has signed many international agreements pledging to protect and guarantee women’s equality under law, including the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)…
«Egypt's policy making is suffering from major dissonance. In spite of repeated statements by policy makers that emphasize the importance of education, there is a significant…»
«Egyptian universities are being subjected to a carefully designed de-democratization process. By de-democratization, I mean transforming universities from hubs helping to create out of students agents…»
Since the 1960s, private schooling has been a booming business in Egypt. Although many of them require high fees, many parents believe that they are worth the financial burden because…
«There is much to be said about the current security crisis in Egyptian universities. There is, first, the matter of students getting shot and killed on…»
School-related deaths and injuries in Egypt are unfortunately nothing new and occur all too frequently. That administrators and government officials are not being held to account is also unfortunately not…
In 1976, Stephen Hawking, a pioneering physicist and research director at the Center for Theoretical Cosmology at Cambridge University, proved that black holes release radiation due to quantum effects. This…
“I don’t feel guilty. What I do is devoid of emotion,” says Samia, a civil servant by morning, sex worker by night. While she wasn’t asked whether she feels guilty…
«The relationship between civil society and modern education in Egypt dates back — at the very least — to the founding of Cairo University in 1908.…»
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