'Sidewalk Salon' rediscovers Cairo through its chairs
Many Cairenes probably agree that Friday mornings in the Egyptian capital are the best. Exhibit one: the many friends who have decided to take a weekly stroll through one of the city’s districts before the first sounds of the Friday prayer’s call even resound. Pigeons circling around their towers, countless buildings tickling the beige smog, and a mother airing blankets from her third floor balcony.This might catch the eye that decides to look up. Yet Manar Moursi and David Puig’s attention was drawn to something more down-to-earth during one of their walks: Cairo’s chairs. Sidewalk Salon: 1001 Street Chairs of Cairo, their photography project that has been going on for years and has the chairs in the leading role, is hopefully going to take the shape of a book later this year.
Source: Egyptian Streets
The future of Syria without education
A formalized educational system within a nation is necessary not only to cultivate productive citizens but also to provide a structured system for children to realize how the world around them functions. The molding of children into educated adults by way of schooling is severely hindered, however, for refugees displaced by war or genocide.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) described the Syrian Civil War as “the biggest humanitarian emergency of our era.” Almost half of the causalities of the conflict are children, and millions of refugees continue to flee into neighboring Lebanon and Jordan.
Source: US-Middle East Youth Network
Why the rise of the Islamic State could be a chance for a real reformation of Islam
Islamic State (IS), previously known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), has shown nothing but destruction, chaos and sectarianism. Through terror strategies, they rapidly spread over great parts of eastern Syria and north and central Iraq. Their new recruits come from all over the world, but mainly Islamic countries. Arab countries had the biggest share of recruits. While IS was assembling supporters and sympathisers, Sunni clergymen constantly called for ‘material and moral’ support to the Syrian rebels, and accordingly, thousands of foreign fighters flooded into Syria for Jihad.
Source: Your Middle East
