A new project at the American University in Cairo showcases Egyptian culture...to Egyptian students...and it's very bizarre
“Cold drinks! Pepsi! Cold drinks!” he sang out in Arabic slang.
The pretend coffee shop sat in a fake street built for the occasion. It looked rather like a film set for an old western — the facades had nothing behind them, and the “shops” overlooked a spacious square, around which milled a number of students dressed in galabeyas and tarbooshes.
I had come to the American University Cairo’s New Campus to experience El 7ara, a project by AUC’s Theater and Film Club.
Source: Muftah
Israelis' surrogate mothers in Nepal are no laughing matter
Saturday’s horrific earthquake in Nepal has dominated the news here in Israel, not only because Nepal is a popular travel destination and around 2,000 Israeli backpackers were airlifted out of the area in recent days, but primarily because of the 100 or so surrogate mothers carrying babies for Israeli gay couples and single parents.
Only heterosexual couples can legally turn to surrogacy in Israel, so homosexual couples look to other countries – and generally look eastward to India and now Nepal, since it is much cheaper than the West.
Source: +972 Mag
Eleven months of vacuum
Ten years ago, the Syrian army was withdrawing from Lebanon. In April 2005, “Syria was out”. But the truth is, Syria was never out. Syria was everywhere. Syria is everywhere. For a brief moment, it seemed as if the politics of Syria and Lebanon would be at last separated from one another. But we were wrong. In the seven years that followed, the political coalitions in Lebanon were built on nothing but their stance regarding Syria, and for the 3 years after that, Lebanese politics became about the Syrian Civil War.
Source: Moulahazat
