When I published my first book last year on Amazon, many people asked me, why do you write in English? Anyone who knows me in person or follows me on the online social networks knows that I always express myself in Arabic whether in writing or in speaking. Arabic is my mother tongue, which I should have […]
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Night Running
Only three weeks have passed since my last run, and I felt like I never ran before. Although it’s almost two years now since I started to run regularly, I still get the feeling of newbies when I stop running for a week or two. And the more I take a break from running the […]
I happy to announce that my new book is out, titled “It’s Not Just About Running: Reflections on Life and Change in Egypt”. About the book: Author A. I. Shoukry describes his running moments like a window with a sunrise view for a prisoner kept in solitary confinement. After witnessing a revolution in Egypt, running […]
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Celebration Run
As I went to bed late, I didn’t have any clue of how am I supposed to wake up the next day to run early. I did set the alarm to 6 am and thought if I had as strong will to run I would wake up. 5:59 am I woke up without the alarm, […]
Since the Aswan Half Marathon, held last February, I didn’t exceed the 10k per run. Last two weeks I had a bad seasonal allergy, and I felt like I never ran before and got a sense of doubt whenever the thought of running came to my mind. It was a strange feeling as I only […]