Hend Kortam | هند قرطام

It feels like I am walking into a museum every time I open this book & so, I felt the need to share. This is my grandmother's copy of The Fundamentals of Cooking, the most famous Egyptian cookbook. Published in 1941, it remained a reference in the culinary world for years to come

Protesters in Lebanon throwing stones and trying to storm U.S. and French embassy compounds after tragic Gaza hospital blast.

Eygptian humanitarian aid for Gaza arrives in Sinai "The aid will wait in Sinai until a deal is secured with Israel to allow the delivery of aid into the besieged territory." #0000018b-2df6-d1d9-a3cb-efff741a0000" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">apnews.com/live/israel-ha…

Friends in BEIRUT: AFP's brilliant photographer Christina Assi needs type A positive blood as she undergoes her treatment after last night's Israeli shelling. She's at The American University of Beirut Medical Center. Please head over and donate if you can.

Issam was the sweetest colleague. He let me take a kitten I was nursing on assignment once, and made it a bed in his helmet. But he always reminded me, whenever I got careless: “Our goal is to cover the news, not become it”. I am so sorry this happened to you my dear Issam. RIP.

A wall of old radios, at least some of which still work, in a Cairo shop.

I still absolutely love the way my friend started this phone call twitter.com/hendtrk/status…

My father-in-law is a builder. It is difficult to get his attention in a magnificent space because he is lost in wonder. We were in a cathedral together years ago and I asked him what it would cost to build it today. I will never forget his answer… “We can’t, we don’t know how to do it.”

I want to confirm, this has been a thread entirely dedicated to the doors of #Florence. There were many more, I couldn't stop to take all the pictures. But Florence is an open-air museum, I could write a lot more threads about the many other fascinating aspects of this city.

Is there more? You may wonder... 🚪 👀

Okay, this is a thread about the magnificent doors of #Florence in #Italy. When I am travelling, I stop to look at the doors of buildings. I have seen beautiful ones in many places. But never like this. These doors need to be appreciated.

A glimpse into the daily hardship of those who remain in Khartoum, Omdruman and Bahri. The predicaments of those with nowhere to go. Via @AP apnews.com/article/sudan-…

Literally no one understands something more completely than a woman in a meeting who starts a question with “Just so I understand…”

how is it 2023 and nobody's come up with a satisfying explanation as to why cell phones never show up in our dreams if we're using them for 12 hours a day?

5yo; “Mommy, I think when I grow up, I might change my name to a grownup name because my name is a little kid’s name. Maybe I’ll use my middle name. My name is such a baby name! I want a grown up name when I’m a grown up.” Reader, his name is HARVEY.

I’m experiencing this first hand, seeing it around and online. #Sudan-ese people are running out of money. In most cases, they can’t access their own money. Banks are closed and mobile banking isn’t working and it’s v. difficult to receive transfers from abroad. +

Can one dot be art? :)

When I teach poetry to the littlest humans, they come up with lines like these: "I ask the world, 'Why did people invent money?'" "Sometimes I am an emordle [immortal] jellyfish." "I ask the world, 'Why is there inflatshin [inflation]?'" "How do people get use[d] to other languages?"