Hend Kortam | هند قرطام

Television producer once based in Beirut, and will always cherish that time. Currently with @AP in Cairo | Previously @Reuters

[Hend Kortam | هند قرطام @hendtrk]

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

[Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب @chehayebk]

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

[Hend Kortam | هند قرطام @hendtrk]

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."
https://t.co/ms9DbArJ3I

[Kareem Chehayeb | كريم شهيب @chehayebk]

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.

[Erika Solomon @ErikaSolomon]

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.

[Andrew Simon @simongandrew]

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

[Hend Kortam | هند قرطام @hendtrk]

I still absolutely love the way my friend started this phone call

https://t.co/J3AuzVNl1z

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

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.”

[Hend Kortam | هند قرطام @hendtrk]

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.

[Hend Kortam | هند قرطام @hendtrk]

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.

[Hend Kortam | هند قرطام @hendtrk]

Is there more? You may wonder... 🚪 👀

[Jack Brady Jeffery @jackjeffery50]

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
https://t.co/c5MS7dwcfP

[Taylor Kay Phillips @TayKayPhillips]

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

[Zephyr On Call (hibernating - back 2024) @zephyr_on_call]

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?

[Stephanie Insley Hershinow @S_Insley_H]

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.

[Hamid Khalafallah ~ حامد @HamidMurtada]

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. +

[Hend Kortam | هند قرطام @hendtrk]

Can one dot be art? :)

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

❤️all the kids doing the poetry prompt
Here's one:

My name is Rhett
Today I feel like a bright light in the galaxy
Sometimes I am a comet
Sometimes I am a meteor
But always I am amazing
I ask the world "can one dot be art?”
And the answer is
a bright light shining in the galaxy

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

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?"