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Qarafa al-Arafa, or the City of the Dead, a centuries-old Cairo necropolis, is one of a hundred slums defining the informality of the city’s urban panorama. The monumental patchwork of tombs and mausoleums spread at the foot of the Moqattam...
The first higher education institution in the Middle East and North Africa to calculate its carbon footprint, the American University in Cairo (AUC) has measured its own impact on the environment with the aim of reducing the university’s...
"If you let a monkey choose if he wants a banana now or six bananas later, the monkey will always choose a banana now. It seems like many of these adults think a little like this monkey," Felix Finkbeiner, a 14-year-old German kid,...
The little bee is a big deal. One third of our diet depends on honey bees as they are essential pollinators of our major crops, like strawberry, zucchini, blueberry, apples, cherries, and cucumbers. According to a study published in 2010, “...
The American University in Cairo (AUC) will be the first Middle Eastern and African university team to compete in a European contest that will take place in September.
Solar Decathlon Europe 2012 is a competition between universities from all over...
As Egypt enters the peak of summer, there is a shadow economy that few dare to discuss: “Seasonal” or “transactional” marriages between Egyptian women and wealthy men from Arab Gulf countries. These marriages, which often...
As food prices increase and food security is a cause for concern, experimenting with organic food gardening is not only a relaxing hobby but also a way of saving money while eating healthy food.
The small art gallery Artellewa, located in the...
One of the fastest trains in the world, the Japanese 500 Series Shinkansen bullet train, was designed to run quietly at high speed and reduce the noise created by air resistance.
Designers accomplished those things by looking to owls for its wing...
In Cairo, urban agriculture is growing in popularity as more and more people strive to adopt more eco-friendly approaches to the environment and encourage the decentralization of the community’s reliance on farming corporations.
Many...
Egyptian authorities should investigate the conduct of security forces at demonstrations, the international human rights watchdog Amnesty International said in a statement released on Thursday.
Protests that broke out on Tuesday night and continued...
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