15 September, 2021 • Nevine Abraham
Nevine Abraham Growing up in Shoubra, one of the most populated Christian suburbs of Cairo, I met all my Muslim friends at a French Catholic school, which they and… Continue reading The Complexity of Belonging: Reflections of a Female Copt
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15 September, 2021 • Sherine Elbanhawy
For a brutally honest look at what it’s been like to run a business and raise a family in Cairo these past twenty years, read Diwan’s founder Nadia Wassef’s “Shelf Life” How a labor of love consumes, challenges and fills her life with questions whose answers are often on the…
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24 August, 2021 • Sherifa Zuhur
Baraa and Zaman: Reading Egyptian Modernity in Shadi Abdel Salam’s The Mummy , by Youssef Rakha Palgrave 2020 ISBN 9783030613532 Sherifa Zuhur Baraa and Zaman: Reading Egyptian Modernity in Shadi… Continue reading Reading Egypt from the Outside In, Youssef Rakha’s “Baraa and Zaman”
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8 August, 2021 • Farah Abdessamad
Mohamed Kheir’s oneiric novel takes readers on a journey around Egypt after the failed Arab Spring.
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14 July, 2021 • Elana Golden
The screenwriter and would-be director of Gaza Airport recounts her struggle to make a feature film in Gaza.
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16 May, 2021 • Selma Dabbagh
Selma Dabbagh reviews the story of Egypt's pioneering women performers and feminists, including Oum Khoulthum and Munira al-Maydiyya.
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14 February, 2021 • Malu Halasa
Malu Halasa reviews a selection of the 170 Arab, Iranian and Turkish artists and artworks in the British Museum's contemporary Middle East collection.
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27 December, 2020 • TMR
“Gamal was convinced that Egypt, mother of the world, would spawn a new era—when Arabs, the wretched of the earth, would finally regain their place among the nations.”
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4 October, 2020 • Ella Shohat
A Land Like You gives a palpable sense of a community that could not have imagined its own uprooting out of Egypt.
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