Amidst the presidential inauguration celebrations, an all too familiar and increasingly recurrent tragedy took place: the mass physical abuse and attempted rape of a girl. The…
Author: Mohammed El Soukkary
Mohammed El Soukkary
Full-time diplomat, part-time writer, reluctant gym rat and an avid aficionado of cuisine, Mohammed has been on every inhabited continent. Out of an insatiable reading habit, a writing habit developed which he decided to share because why not? In attempting to apply the principles of balance and yin and yang, he is both a bureaucrat and an ardent critic of bureaucratic incompetence (which he is intimately familiar with).
Egypt has embraced the “Happy” phenomenon with videos showing people dancing and smiling and generally sending out good vibes. We like to think that represents our…
Diplomats like to point out all the difficulties they face in their jobs, even as they lounge about on their million dollar yachts flitting from…