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Translation by : Rana Doss

The Favor

Prof. Hanan Mohamed Ali, Vice-Dean of Education and Student Affairs
While playing on the balcony of her house, a its water every day. The bird became her main

girl saw a small bird falling suddenly, which concern, spending most of her time with it and

triggered her fear. She quickly called her taking it with her while visiting her family and
mother, who came to investigate only to find a friends. The week passed and the bird's wound
bird injured in one of her legs. She turned to her was healed, he began to walk in the cage almost
little daughter, who looked surprised, saying, "It normally, and the girl was extremely happy.
is a beautiful green bird with a long tail, a One day, the girl went with her family to the
decorative bird that some acquire to enjoy its garden and brought her bird with her, and there
beautiful sound. Unfortunately, it looks like he she noticed that all the birds were singing, while
hit something solid while flying, injured himself hers was not; she did not even know its voice. So

and fell on our balcony." The girl questions, she asked her mother, "Why doesn't my bird sing
"Can we keep it?" The mother replied, "I am like other birds?" The mother replied, "It may be
going to ask the doorman to check with the still feeling pain from its injury, or it misses its
inhabitants of our building and neighbouring wife and children, or its friends who took care of
buildings, it may be that he escaped from his it, or maybe it wants fly like the rest of the birds
cage or that he fell inadvertently; but until we ..." The worried girl wondered, "Will my bird

find its owners, we have to take care of it. leave me and fly like the rest of the birds? Would
Finally, the mother looked at her daughter and it be as happy as them and sing such a beautiful
said, “Come with me, so that we can bring it song?" And there, the mom stroked her hair,
some water and some grain.” So the little girl, saying. "Honey, this cage looks small, what do
full of joy, put the grain in her little hand and you think about bringing it a bigger cage so that
began to feed the bird. it can fly in it freely? Let’s try."
The next day, the mother brought a small cage When the girl put the two cages in front of each
to put the bird in and said to her daughter, "Let's other, and as she was about to take the bird out

take it to the doctor." The doctor treated it and of the small cage to put it in the big one, the bird
wrote it medicine which needs to be mixed with bit her hand and flew high with a loud sound.
water. The little girl continued to give it the
medicine, to put grain in the cage and renew

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