Nael El Toukhy is a novelist and translator from Hebrew to Arabic.
This Alexandrian bookseller has independently created a massive scholarly archive
Many hated Naji because individuality is thorny, lonely and uncomfortable, even for those claiming to admire it.
«Nael al-Toukhy explores Israeli youthfulness and its reversal on October 7.»
«"We feel Jerusalem is our capital, so it is. Other people and complex narratives do not exist."»
«Nael El Toukhy on how decades of no debate about normalization led to the Olympic hand-shaking debacle.»
«In the video for his first song in Hebrew, To be an Arab, released last summer, Palestinian singer Jowan Safadi shows us a bearded Mizrahi Jew…»
«In 1949, David Ben-Gurion said of Yemeni Jews arriving in Israel: “They are behind us by more than 2000 years."»
«Israel vs. Israel: Judaism, Islam and Zionism "It pained him that Jews are being killed, but it doesn't pain him to kill Arabs? Arabs were created…»
