Hadir Sami

Special Needs Children: Leukemia

What Is Leukemia? Leukemia refers to cancers of the white blood cells (WBCs), which are also referred to as leukocytes. Since there are different types of white blood cells, the types of leukemia also vary.  When a child has leukemia, large numbers of abnormal white blood cells are produced in the bone marrow. As they…

3al Kahwa

Making your way in the world today takes everything you’ve got. Taking a break from all your worries sure would help a lot. Wouldn’t you like to get away? Sometimes you want to go Where everybody knows your name, and they’re always glad you came. You wanna be where you can see, our troubles are…

Raising a Bilingual Child

It happens a lot that you encounter young children speaking a foreign language with one of their parents and talking in Arabic or another language to their friends or grandparents.  How could children at that age master more than one language?  Is it really beneficial to expose a child to several languages or would that…

Adel Mansour and the Art of Photography

Born in 1936, Mansour witnessed Egypt going through different stages: the king, the revolution and the republic.  After graduating from the Faculty of Law at Cairo University, he started working in cotton export in Alexandria.  In 1969, he immigrated to the United States.  “Many Egyptians started leaving their homeland by the end of the 50’s,…