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Pascale Harter introduces personal reflections from ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ correspondents and writers around the world. In this edition:

Can the "Sofa Party" get out the vote?

A year after its apparent revolution, Egypt is getting ready for another big milestone – its presidential election. What it took to move the last president out of the post must be uppermost in the minds of voters choosing the new one. But who'll get the job is harder to predict than whodunnit in a murder mystery by the English novelist Agatha Christie. At Luxor, on the Nile, Kevin Connolly found that paradoxically, power is to be decided by ... the forces of apathy.

Anyone for 'milk cake'?

Now, a cheese by any other name would not smell as sweet. Unless you're Chinese, in which case the name makes all the difference. Chef, food writer and correspondent Fuchsia Dunlop had found her Chinese contemporaries were usually repelled by the 'smelly and greasy' substance. But she recently took a trip to one of the country's very few cheese-producing regions - and found a whole new world of dairy delicacies.