This story was originally published on an Arabic website called Stories from History, and I found it both unique and compelling. What especially caught my attention was that the story involved a white school principal and a Black student whose lives became unexpectedly connected. Two of my recent…

Pigs are considered unclean in Islam, which is why Muslims do not consume pork. But the idea that Muslims are somehow “scared of pigs” is simply naive and ignorant.The Old Testament also explicitly forbade the consumption of pork. In the Hebrew Scriptures, pork was classified as “unclean” under the…

Haya Amr Fawzy, an Egyptian medical student, became widely known after helping injured people during the Arabella Plaza Mall fire and explosion in New Cairo on August 13, 2026. Egyptian media have described her as the “heroine” of the Arabella Mall incident.Who is Haya Amr Fawzy?Fawzy is a third-…

Sometimes, an ordinary person is placed in an extraordinary situation, and what he does in those few critical moments reveals more about his character than a lifetime of words ever could.That is what happened in Gharbia Governorate, Egypt, on July 19, 2026, when a car plunged into the Al-Qased…