Heba Yosry

Heba Yosry

Heba Yosry teaches psychology and philosophy in Cairo. She holds a post-graduate degree in Arabic Literature and philosophy from the American University in Cairo. In addition to her teaching duties ; her research areas include modernity, gender, metaphysics and language. She tweets @HebaYosry17.

No prosperity in making our children inherit our generational trauma

I’ve been comprehensively trying to isolate myself from the war next door. I willfully chose to ignore following up on the number of casualties, the most recent attacks, and even the proposed......

Quran GPT and the dangers of propagating a homogenized version of Islam

Most people, especially those in Western countries or those from Western countries, don’t make the initial assumption that I am a Muslim. I simply don’t fit the profile of what people commonly......

Parenting: The agony and ecstasy

The journey is fraught with challenges, but comes with its share of rewards as well. ...

Youssef Rakha’s quest for individuality: Challenging social norms, rethinking ethics

In a cafe on the outskirts of the increasingly expanding Cairo, I had the pleasure of sitting down and talking to Egyptian writer Youssef Rakha. Our conversation smoothly flowed from his writing......

The past can articulate itself within the present

The ever-changing intellectual landscape is a phenomenon that I discussed with the Egyptian novelist and linguistic professor from the American University, Cairo, Reem Bassiouney. A creative writer......

Using AI content platforms is forsaking our imagination

We have recently witnessed the rise of AI content platforms that are causing a state of frantic panic within creative communities around the world. Different AI programs can produce work that until......

Hearing one’s voice in the face of ChatGPT content is difficult

The irony isn’t lost on me. As I write these words, there is a distinct possibility to absorb them within an AI system that can regurgitate them and present them once again, devoid of any trace that......

Honor means more than a hymen

Pictures and videos emerged recently of a procession in an Egyptian village. It featured cheers, singing and embodied an unmistakable sense of pride. A fifteen-year-old girl hoisted on her father’s......