Omar Samra, the first Egyptian to climb Mount Everest in 2007, is one step away from achieving his “7 Summits Challenge” of climbing the highest peak on each of the seven continents. Last January Samra successfully climbed the sixth of these seven peaks by reaching the top of Mount Vinson Massif in Antarctica. In 2008,…
Online social media served as a pivotal tool throughout the 18 days of mass protests that led up to the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak, and has now become a space in which Egypt’s youth convene to discuss how to build the nation’s future. During the protests Tahrir Square in central Cairo was transformed into…
Hoda Baraka explores the power of the individual in the bid to address the problems plaguing the environment. We hear all the time about how environmental catastrophes, such as global warming, are lurking and are set to overshadow our future aspirations for a sustainable and more stable world. In some ways there seems to be a…
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