Feature: Egyptian twin sisters devoted to bridging China-Arab cultural ties through translating books, teaching Chinese

Shiamaa Kamal reads a Chinese textbook in her office at the Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt, on Sept. 28, 2017. Recommended by their brother Abdullah Kamal, a famous Egyptian journalist who foresaw the rise of China as a global power, twin sisters Rasha and Shiamaa Kamal decided to study the Chinese language in the 1990s only for better understanding the mighty economic force. Now, they have become the building blocks of a bridge that connects the cultures of China and the Arab world, working as established translators and lecturers in the Chinese language. (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa)