“I am the Siddhartha of Nuba,” said Yehia, and he instantly caught my attention. Siddhartha is a book my father had insisted over and over in me reading while I was a teenager. “I wish he was here,” I thought as Yehia kept narrating his 1,001 stories with a polished Spanish accent. He pulls out...
Egypt’s entrepreneurial generation is as fearless as ever. Taking on mammoth challenges from FinTech, to transportation, to augmented reality solutions for the deaf, these are the country’s youngest entrepreneurs driving change. They are the silent warriors of social change; the valiant innovators who don’t fear age barriers, gender stereotypes or cultural chains. These intrepid entrepreneurs...
Nos subimos al avión un lunes de Noviembre, sabiendo que nos esperaba un desafío. Dos latinoamericanas residentes en Europa, se adentraban por primera vez al mundo árabe-africano. Convencida de que cada viaje es una excursión hacia adentro, me dije que sería la ocasión ideal para aprender a ser más tolerante. Nos sentamos al lado de Sara,...
