Anwar El Sadat

“There is a concept in Egypt called hamdullah, which means ‘thank God.’ Even if you are poor, you still thank God”. It is a funny concept, to thank God when you are poor. It creates a sort of tension within someone - why would anyone want to be poor? And more than that, why would anyone want to thank God for being poor? This is one of the many ways that my partner, Nouran (Noonoo) Ghannam has portrayed to me the tension that is so evident among young people in Cairo, Egypt. Noonoo is 22 years

In Nawal El Saadawi’s book, Memoirs from the Women’s Prison, Dr. Saadawi speaks about her experience within the women’s prison system and the oppression that citizen, especially women face within Egypt. In her interview with Nawal Al Saadawi, she speaks about the political dynamic of Egypt’s governmental system. As she says, the fight for democracy cannot be done without the work for women’s rights as well. As women make up about half of the population, Dr. Saadawi says that the freedom of democracy

Humor and Language Humor is elusive, inexplicable phenomena, often the best medicine for our psychological problems and issues. Humor language is rarely discussed; we will explore later on the reasons why humor is avoided in schools, the types of humor and its benefits. At times we overlook humor as an important element in teaching and using it as a tool to contribute to a positive environment for learning, humor for some is considered to be synonyms of disorder and chaos. ”I’m not going to start

people to these new satellite communities, offering incentives to people to live there and also tax exemptions for businesses and industries. The building of satellite cities was not able to fix Cairo’s problem of overpopulation in the city center. Sadat then targets informal housing settlements, specifically where the land value would be higher for new development to further clean up and modernize the city

“Our freedom is not up for negotiation.”(Mohamed ElBaradei). The Egyptian Revolution was a battle to take back rights that had been taken away for nearly thirty years.Socially, the main causes were a lack of human rights, and poor living conditions.Economic changes also promoted the development of protests. Political leaders were unjust, provoking citizens to create an uproar of resistance. The Egyptian Revolution has had many harsh social, destructive economic, yet promising political impacts on

Menachem Begin, the prime minister of Israel, changed Israel because he made peace with Anwar el-Sadat, sacrificed the Sinai Peninsula, and shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Egyptian President, Anwar el-Sadat.     Before he became prime minister, he was a serious zionist, or someone who supports the movement of the recreation of a Jewish nation in Israel, and even joined a Zionist Revisionists’ youth movement, converting into their leader by the age of 25 years old. He even was imprisoned for supporting

presidential retreat Camp David. It was a peace treaty between the two warring nations Israel and Egypt and was paired with a shuffle in territory. U.S. president Jimmy Carter accompanied Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian leader Anwar El Sadat for the negotiations. These events led to more interaction with Egypt and Israel, paved the way for future diplomatic meetings, and contributed to a psychological shift in Israel. After the Camp David Accords were put into place, interaction

The countries of South America, Africa, and Asia were under the shadow of the more powerful European and American countries before and during the World Wars. Before the wars European nations colonized other countries such as Asia, South America, and especially Africa. It was a means for European countries to advance their global power. Meanwhile, the Africans and other native people, had been treated as weak and disrespectable, hurting African, Asian, and South American pride. After WWII, the countries

Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar el-Sādāt with US president Jimmy Carter acting as the middle man. Sādāt and Begin were awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1978 for their contributions to the agreements. Sādāt, however, was assassinated in October 1981 by a group of army officers who were angered, along with many other Egyptians, by Sādāt’s decision to make peace with Israel. Prior to his death, Sādāt

The primary parties involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are the Israelis and the Palestinians but almost all Arab countries have contributed to the problem, as well. The region as the heart of the conflict is the area formally known as Palestine. It now is Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank. Jewish Israelis claim ownership of the land because they need a place that is safe from all the hostility from Arabs towards Jewish people. They also believe that they were promised this land by God