Latest from Heba Farouk Mahfouz
How an Egyptian Doctor’s Fad Diet Turned Deadly
The “tayyibat” diet, devised by the late Egyptian medical influencer Diaa al-Awady and drawing on Quranic language, splits food into "pure" and "harmful" categories while urging followers to eat sugar and starch, quit poultry and vegetables, and abandon conventional medicine, including insulin. Its harm is still being felt.
Egypt’s Botched #MeToo Moment
The Sisi government encouraged victims of sexual assault to come forward – then it arrested them.