Startup Spotlight: DopaApp Fights Addiction from “Your Pocket”
Three young entrepreneurs have developed DopaApp, a mobile application encourages addicts to seek treatment and track their recovery.
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Health and Medicine
Tracing the developments in health and wellbeing, on and off-campus.
New Drug Testing Policy Sidesteps Student Government
According to the policy, any questionable student behavior, including suspicion of drug or alcohol abuse, and excessive tardiness or absence, makes the student subject to drug testing.
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Forbidden Intimacies: Homosexuals Branded Mentally Ill in Egypt
Sexual identity remains a taboo topic across the Middle East; women who feel comfortable expressing themselves sexually are shamed, but it is perhaps homosexuals (men, in particular) who bear the brunt of it.
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In Search of Ballerina Bodies: The Distortions and Disorders of Self-Image
In today’s social media-powered world where one is overwhelmed with certain expectations that dictate the ‘perfect’ body, many seek extreme measures to achieve extreme results.
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The Inescapable Chains of Addiction?
Drug abuse, addiction, smuggling and related crimes have long been a mainstay of Egyptian literature and cinema.
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Trouble in Paradise? Divorce and Domestic Violence Behind Closed Doors
Recent research has shown that abuse behind the closed doors of dysfunctional family homes has a direct effect on every member of the household.
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Okasha: Rate of Depression in Egypt the Same as Around the World
Leading Egyptian psychiatrist and professor of psychiatry at Ain Shams University Dr. Ahmed Okasha has authored and contributed to 47 books on various mental disorders. The Caravan interviewed him on the sidelines of his AUC lecture The Science of Well Being.
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Model Council of Ministers Call for Hepatitis C Awareness
In an attempt to combat the spread of the Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) in Egypt, AUC’s Model Council of Ministers (MCM), in collaboration with the Ettamen ‘Ala Nafsak (Check Up On Yourself) initiative, launched an awareness campaign on February 26.
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Overpopulation Hinders Egypt’s Development
Thousands of TV ads, newspaper campaigns, and even a push from former first lady Suzanne Mubarak stressed the importance of slowing down population growth.
The campaigns failed.
‘You Are Dead’ Anti-Smoking Campaign Raises Cancer Awareness
According to a 2004 National Cancer Institute study, nearly five per cent of all cancer-related deaths in Egypt are due to lung cancer.
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