It is very difficult for a divorced parent to wake up in the morning to an empty house. As parents, we spend most of our lives complaining about all the hard work, the lack of sleep, the lack of peace and quiet, the problems, the multi-tasking… But not a single one of us would have [...]
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This blog post is not about me being morbid nor is it about me feeling sorry for myself. Over the past six months since my father died, I received a few comments on the two posts I made about my father’s passing. These were mainly comments from other women who experienced something similar and who [...]
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Politics is a dirty business. And at no time in Egypt has politics been dirtier. I’ve attempted all my life to educate myself politically. I’ve tried to understand the different systems and to understand why politicians do and decide the things they do. I’ve always failed. I won’t start trying to understand it all now. [...]
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