


She turned thirty in Madrid, and the next morning her parents called to tell her it was cancer. Shayma Sabry sits down with Hikmat to talk about everything that came before and aft…

Faris spends ninety minutes saying exactly what he believes about Islam in the modern world, and invites Hikmat to push back. They start with extremism and who actually has the rig…

Yasmine Sarwat never planned to work. She was the perfectionist student, then the mother who wanted everything around her just right — her clothes, her children, her home. Work was…

Dr. Marwa Eid was in middle school when a teacher asked the class what they wanted to be. She answered without thinking — a doctor. She still can't explain why. The teacher told he…

Dr. Dina was the first person in her family to enter medical school — Kasr Al-Aini, Cairo University, no mentor, no guidance, no one to ask. She wanted to be a pediatrician. Then o…

Majda was an engineer — electrical and computer, honors degree, master's on a corporate scholarship, managing the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey for an international company.…
