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Lenah’s friends would describe her as easy going, chill and a straight shooter: she says it like it is. She adores her huge, loud and proud Egyptian family, including of course the latest addition; her wonderful fiancé who has somehow managed to fit his way into the crazy bunch. Her dream is to become a foreign correspondent, taking her baby along with her (that is her Sony VG-10 camera). She has a weak spot for greasy American food, witty humor, and sad romance movies.

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Diaries of a Bride to Be: Meeting the Parents, Pt 1

Lenah Hassaballah Nov 26, 2013

The long anticipated week came. Everything we’ve done and endlessly talked about led up to this moment: when Yassine finally met the family, and more importantly, my dad. So on the day he was supposed to arrive, my parents asked me 500 different questions about the flight number, arrival time, terminal, if I knew the way, if the hotel was…

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Diaries of a Bride to Be: Close Call in Tahrir

Lenah Hassaballah Nov 18, 2013

Note: I feel like I’m writing a lot of these notes! Anyway, THIS post is going to be a surprise for my dad, because he doesn’t know about this little trip…

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Diaries of a Bride to Be: Telling Dad

Lenah Hassaballah Nov 11, 2013

In the first part of Lenah's story about breaking her relationship with Yassine to her parents, she finally confesses the details to her mother, whose reaction…

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Diaries of a Bride to Be: Breaking it to the Parents, Pt 1

Lenah Hassaballah Nov 4, 2013

Note: Hey, everyone! Just letting you guys know I’m writing this post from Lyon, France! I’m here with my parents visiting Yassine’s SUPER French grandma and great aunt. I’ll tell you some more details about that in a later post... ANYWAY. Try to remember when you were a kid (or even as a grown adult), and you did something really…

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Street Voices: Egypt – Spreading Hope

Lenah Hassaballah Nov 1, 2013

The past couple of years, Egyptians have faced a hard time. But the thing with Egyptians is that no matter how hard things might be, and no matter how hard…

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Diaries of a Bride to Be: The Road to Paree, Part Two

Lenah Hassaballah Oct 31, 2013

In Part One, Lenah's grandpa schemes to send her and her cousin Sarah to meet Yassine in Paris. They arrive in the city of romance, and after a day of…

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Diaries of a Bride to Be: The Road to Paree, Part One

Lenah Hassaballah Oct 28, 2013

I’m known to be a big mouth, meaning if anything significant happens in my life, I have to let every single person I've met know about it. (Hence, me writing this column!) Now, don’t get me wrong, I don’t do it to show off or anything, it’s just that when I’m overly excited about something, I get really hyper and the only way for me to calm…

Food

Street Voices: Egyptians’ Favorite Foods

Lenah Hassaballah Oct 25, 2013

This week, we asked people what their favorite food is and we got an array of answers: some interesting, some cool and some SO Egyptian. Take a look.…

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Diaries of a Bride to Be: Finally, Something Happens!

Lenah Hassaballah Oct 21, 2013

Imagine this: You know in those cheesy romance movies when they put a chick flick song in the background, and do a split screen with the girl in her bedroom…

Arts

Street Voices: “You Know You’re Egyptian When…”

Lenah Hassaballah Oct 18, 2013

Of course, this doesn't even cover a quarter of what it's like to be Egyptian, but we tried to cover a few things. Definitely expect some sequels to this!

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