Latest in Tag: birthday Highlight
Latest in Tag: birthday
Google Doodle celebrates Egyptian feminist Huda Shaarawi’s birthday
Despite an unhappy private life, she grew from a somewhat passive woman, frequently forbidden by her husband from visiting friends or relatives, to a nationalist. She was also vociferous as a driving force in Egypt’s flourishing feminist movement.
#Alaa_is34 trends as social media users celebrate activist’s birthday
Social media users celebrate Alaa Abdel Fattah’s birthday as he turns 34 in prison
Celebrating Mubarak’s birthday
Today, 4 May, marks a date hated by many of my generation; Hosni Mubarak’s birthday. For 30 years, the “people” celebrated his birthday. The people in this case were mainly state media, publishing articles regaling our magnanimous dictator, as state TV aired songs praising his birth, mainly with a song well-mocked among the younger generation, …
In Pictures: The birthday that never happened
Today, 29 December, would have been Gaber Salah Gaber’s 17th birthday.
On turning 30
So I am turning the big “three-oh” in a couple of days. I have been itching to reach this age since I was 17 and just starting college. For me, it was the magical number, the age of finally knowing who I am. I was never keen on being a teenager. Childhood was a wonderful …