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Articles by Shahlaa Badawy

About Shahlaa Badawy
Shahlaa is a Masters student at the Yonsei Graduate School of International Studies. Her home country is Bahrain which she believes is a piece of heaven and backs every historical evidence supporting it was once the home of Utnapishtim. She believes she met the extraordinary, the interesting and the insane during her three years of journalism work at the Bahrain-based Gulf Daily News. She studied mass communication and has interest in the Middle East’s conflicts.
Cartoon by Dr Alaa Allagta

Smeared in Honey: Egypt’s Modern Day Dictatorship

January 24, 2020 Shahlaa Badawy 0

Smeared in honey to drive flies away from their dictator’s food, was Ancient Egyptians’ subservience to their masters bequeathed upon their descendants producing an increasingly […]

Are Korean laws keeping the hummus out of Seoul?

November 2, 2019 Shahlaa Badawy 0

Wealthy Middle Eastern tourists traveling to Seoul are on the rise. But they face one particular challenge once they get here: finding something to eat. […]

Less than Human in South Korea

April 17, 2019 Shahlaa Badawy 0

How a warm welcome turned cold for a Yemeni refugee When 32-year-old Zyiad first fled his war-torn homeland of Yemen and arrived on South Korea’s […]

IS “BAHRAINI” A MASCULINE WORD?

October 31, 2018 Shahlaa Badawy 1

There is a famous Arabic proverb told to almost every woman enduring an unhappy marriage: “U‘sori a‘ala nafsek lamoona”, which literally translates to “squeeze a […]

Tragedy in Indonesia

October 1, 2018 Shahlaa Badawy 0

Many in South Korea associate Indonesia with the success of South Korean national teams at the 18th Asian Games in Palembang held just over a […]

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