Thank you to Rana Kassem for volunteering her time to give an insightful monologue that we can all learn from. Also special thanks to Habiba Darwish and Hanin Sedky for their help during the filming process.

Thank you to Menatallah El Sayed and Eva Sakr for the photos! Congratulations to Year 7 on a successful bake and book sale. 

So for those of you that haven't seen me or heard me which I doubt is many of you, My name is Anthony Romello Salandy. It has been a pleasure to be asked to do Humans of NES. Throughout my 12 years at…

How do you spend YOUR weekends? 2 weekends ago NES sent around 50 delegates, headed by our Secretary General Arjun and our DSGs Dorsa and Alireza, to the prestigious KESMUN Conference in KES. We participated in what were, personally, some of the greatest…

For this final edition, I will share with you the recipe for the very first thing I baked. I was craving something sweet and sour so I spent a good hour scouring the internet for something to fulfill this craving and there it…

I have always been at a loss as to why race was so inextricably linked to identity. Although the two often overlap, they are not one and the same in the postmodern era. As we work our way into the 2010s the population…

“There’s so much I want to do… and so little time.” Our world is full of so many things to do and a variety of interesting things to learn about, and it is part of natural instinct to try to satisfy our curiosity…

Not astute, not shrewd, not insightful, not intelligent. One that is too much for the mind, too much to understand. Melancholy abrupts thought control, taking over, controlling, breaching a new depth. It is a time of new regime, a time where jurisdiction is…

In Life, Charlotte Brontë puts forth man’s never-ending discontent for life’s downs in three wholesome, imagery-packed stanzas. She focuses on (mainly) three, intertwining ideas throughout her poem: the first being that the hardships we face are temporary and result in better things, the…

When Mr. Marchant announced that the auditions for the upper school production were happening I knew I had to audition as it would be my last chance to ever act on the stage of the mousetrap theatre. I remember dragging my friend and…

Musicals are revolutionary to the theatrical arts today, even Shakespeare is still shaping literature and poetry, centuries after his time. Now, you must think Broadway musicals are just happy-go-lucky casts dramatically bursting out into song. (well, part of it is…) There’s much more…