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Life as a Couple: Can You be Too Honest?
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Finding Spaces
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How to Dress for Success! – Leave the Wonderbra at home!
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Diet Myths Revealed, The One-fits-all Diet Myth:
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TOP 5 TIPS FOR EVERY SKIN TYPE
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What is Sexy: Subtle or Obvious?
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Special Needs Children: Leukemia
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The Branding Instinct
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My Birthday This Year
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Do His Child Days Explain His Wild Ways?
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Creative Fun In The Sun
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Equality and the Modern Woman
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Housekeeping 101 for the newly house wife!
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Cracking the Code: How do consumers buy?
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Post-Wedding Blues: What your mom never told you!
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Single and not looking!
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Diet Myths Revealed: The Atkins Diet Myth
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Take a break – Give yourself a treat!
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Stepping up your Physical Activity: Walking to Improve your Health
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Mean Girls: Why Women Bully
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3al Kahwa
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My Big Fat Egyptian Weeding
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Make Criticism work for you: A five-step strategy for handling criticism from your boss
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Breathe into Life
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Etiquette of Bringing up Kids
Who is my Kid? Is he/she a personal belonging? Is he/she private property? Does he/she have to be similar or resembling parents? Is he/she a personal product (THING)? Are they created without…
Not sorry to spill it out loud
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Career Profiler: Cherine Zeind
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Do I do, or do I don’t?
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Foreign vs. Local Exchange
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Do it yourself – Wedding Special
Why not for a change have sherbet glasses wearing bridal wear? You need: Black Satin White Satin White Tulle 2 Hair bands 3 Black beads Tools: □ Scissors □ Glue gun …
Gifts for an Open Eye
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June Diet
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Will you ever bring out the skeletons in your closet?
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Macroeconomic Jargon
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Ocean’s Thirteen: What are the odds of getting even?
What are the odds of getting even? Danny Ocean (George Clooney) and the gang would have only one reason to pull off their most ambitious and riskiest casino heist – to defend…
Online Love: Too Good To Be True?
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The all Fats are Created Equal Myth
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The Divine Advice for Retaining Customers
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The Morning After…
Nothing really prepares us for marriage. We get prepared for high school by prep school, for college by high school, for work by education …but is there anything that prepares us for…
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Good Physical and Mental Study Habits Can Reduce Exam Stress It’s the end of school, college or university year and if you’re a student, you’re probably tired, stressed and looking forward to…
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Wedding of the 21st Century: IT’S ALL ABOUT THE BENJAMINS
Girls start dreaming about their wedding day at almost the age of six. Naturally, we imagine the beautiful dress, the deliciously looking cake, and the enjoyable ceremony. However, if we examine weddings…
Wedding Worst-Case Scenarios: Can you be prepared?
You’ve worked so hard to plan for this day, and you want everything to be just right. A few things can go wrong that might end up making this day a bit…
Lies and Deceit! The Truth About Egyptian Marriages
Lying, a common human sin, varies in the magnitude of the lie involved. There are small lies (usually called white lies, implying their insignificance) and there are bigger lies, which usually influence…
Foreign Women React to ECWR Survey on Sexual Harassment
Sexual harassment is, as we all know, a big problem in Egypt. To find out how big the problem really is, ECWR started to distribute questionnaires among Egyptian women (1010 questionnaires completed),…
Use of Mirrors
When hanging a mirror try to get someone to help you holding the mirror in place so you can see what it is reflecting and where it best works in the way…
The Married Man
The nature of life today, requires males and us females to mingle and interact very closely together. The males we interact with are young and single, old and single, married, divorced or…
Nutrition Program for Children
Breakfast 1 cup skimmed milk + 2 toast slices + green vegetables + 1 egg or 50 gm cheese or 2 teaspoons jam Snack 1 cup of yoghurt + 1 fruit Lunch…
Play Time: Age appropriate toys & activities for your child
Today’s market offers a variety of toys that are so wide that you can easily get lost in the toy store. To help you out distinguish between what is necessary, appropriate, useless,…
Are we really that hard to please?
While I grew up, I was intrigued by how philosophers, writers and poets described women as creatures of mystery, how they saw a woman's brain so complicated and her needs unattainable. I…
For all the wrong reasons
I used to have a female best friend since we were little kids, we used to hang out together all the time, have sleep-overs, cook together (and burn the food of course),…
Kick Off to Break Off!
We have all been around the block. We all know a thing or two about relationships; we've been with this guy and with that one, we've seen our girlfriends date, and spent…
The Little Black Dress
A little black dress is an evening or cocktail dress, cut simply and often with a short skirt, originally made popular in the 1920s by the fashion designer Coco Chanel. Intended by…
Balenciaga – Rebel with a Cause!
His bubble skirts and odd, feminine, yet ultra-modern shapes were trademarks of the house. Cristóbal Balenciaga opened his first boutique in San Sebastián, Spain, in 1914, which expanded to include branches in…
Milian M
Milia Maroun, the avant-garde Arabian fashion designer, has been selected by Abu Dhabi Fashion Week and Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana as the first ever Arabian designer to show at the Milano…
International Women’s Day
The theme for 2008 is: “Investing in Women‘s Health”. Why dedicate a day exclusively to the celebration of the world’s women? In 1975, during International Women’s Year, the United Nations began…
Our Special Women
Celebrating womanhood is about commemorating women achievers, the innate power of women, and talking about equality- as well as, creating awareness to the splendid realm they preserve. I had read about a…
Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights
ECWR was founded by 6 women in the Dar El Salaam neighborhood of Cairo in 1996 with the mission of providing direct legal aid to poor women and training them to know…
The Corporate Wellness Program
The program of corporate wellness is to positively transform people’s lives through superior education, motivation, and accountability. We have found that it takes multiple exposure to information along with holding people accountable…
Diaries of a Student in London
As some of you may know, there is this general perception that British Television is a total Bore! (No offense to the Brits!) But for those of us like me, who are…
GHANA – We came. We saw. We conquered.
First of all, and to better understand my experience in Ghana, you need to know some facts: – I am NO football-maniac. – I’ve been to the stadium two times in my…
Rania Shaalan – On the Rise
Rania Shaalan is the lead singer of a band, writes and composes most of her songs. With a unique simplicity she mesmerizes her audiences. Her lyrics are inspired and stem from the…
Swine Flu and Pregnancy
There has been a lot of panic recently about the spread of swine flu among pregnant women in Egypt. Most of the reports have confirmed a high mortality rate as compared to…
Polygamy: Is it really that bad?
Polygamy is the practice or condition of having more than one spouse, usually a wife, at one time and, in this article, we will scratch the surface of this sensitive topic and…
CAMP – The First Egyptian Horror Film
A group of young friends decide to spend their holiday in a deserted resort called "Beach Camp" as an adventure getaway, when mysterious incidents begin to occur. Suddenly, they become target of…
Say Goodbye to breakage – not your hair!
Thus, any problem that affects her hair has terrible consequences on the woman overall appearance. Hair fall is one of the most annoying obstacles to the beauty and the health of the…
Sonbol’s Voyage at Hand at Sonbol City
It all began in 1994 with an idea. Now Sonbol City has a fully equipped studio, two plateaus as well as professional actor’s changing facilities all on international standards. The Wanis…
Dear Man
Dear MAN I need my space. Why is it so hard to breathe when you are around? Why is it impossible to express myself in your presence? What is it about…
EXERCISE MYTHS REVEALED
To begin with, one has to state, that this is one of those misconceptions that should be put to rest once and for all. The "fat-burning zone" idea erupted about 15 years…
The Ultimate relationship test: Will your relationship sizzle of fizzle?
All the arguments and fights I’ve been through and have seen other people go through as well, and after going through the feeling of “Why did I do this to myself and…
Top 30 Engagement Hazards
Actually, after asking some friends, some of which are either in this phase right now or have been in it before but couldn’t cope or that have gone through it and actually…
“Are we there yet?” All about Traveling with Kids!
Photo Shutterstock/ Sunny Studio Before having kids, the decision to travel could be a spur of the moment whether going to the North Coast on a weekend, or driving overnight on a…