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We were born just four years apart; I in 1943 in a middle-class suburb of Cairo, Egypt and he in 1947, in small-town USA. We met formally around 1960, but have been inseparable in the nearly six decades since then, keeping company and supporting one another as dear friends do.
One of my great pleasures in life is buying art books with full colorplate pictures. That pleasure is multiplied when I find a rare volume that spans the often vast divide between art and science.
By the time people realize that they are dealing with sexual harassment, it is often too late.
Over the past century or so, political Islamism has hijacked my beloved religion with its violent, bullying agenda and distorted narratives. Tragically, Muslims themselves were and often still are the first victims of its tactics.
Of all my annual visits to Egypt, the country of my birth, this latest one has been the longest - more than 100 days.
For years, I longed to visit the Nubian villages of Upper Egypt, to meet the people, eat local food, shop in their markets, hear traditional Nubian languages, and listen to their music.
On January 9, 1960 construction had just begun on the High Dam project south of Aswan in my native Egypt. I had celebrated my 16th birthday just a couple of weeks earlier on December 24, 1959. I was finishing my last year of high school and preparing to study engineering at Cairo University. Growing up during the 1950s, I was fully aware of country's hard struggle against the ugly imperial powers of the world.
For such a tiny island, just 450 meters long and less than 150 meters wide, Philae in Upper Egypt near Aswan has managed to attract more than its share of history and mysteries.
Apart from the Great Pyramids of Giza, few monuments of ancient Egypt have captured the world's fascination like the two great Abu Simbel temples of Ramses II the Great and his beautiful wife, Queen Nefertari.
Does the first recorded image of a black hole mean we're almost at the end of what science can discover? The short answer is: No.
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On July 7, 2024 in Toronto, Canada, Dimitri Lascaris delivered a speech on the right to resist oppression.