Ali travels between journalism and arts and claims that one informs the other for him. He often writes long observational pieces that reflect on the social and the political, but he is to be feared when it comes to reviews of films he hates. When he is not on the frontline of clashes collecting notes for his first-hand accounts, he…
“Everything you see in front of you,” mutters Hajj Mohamed Abdel Raouf as he moves his finger across the skyline, “was built by murderers and thieves.” The horizon he points…
Tensions flared among residents of the informal neighborhood of Dar al-Salam on Monday, after a scheduled demolition turned fatal. The area continues to experience unrest following last month’s decision by…
Ali Abdel Mohsen on a howling stray dog of a sci-fi movie.
The cab that took me to downtown Cairo on Saturday had a torso-sized Egyptian flag rising from the middle of its hood. I asked the driver if he wasn’t worried…
With its one-month anniversary around the corner and attacks on its participants only increasing, tensions are high at the Rabea al-Adaweya Muslim Brotherhood sit-in, defiance now sharing the air with…
Sure, the national anthem’s great and everything — but for an entire generation of Egyptians there’s another song that more accurately captures that first realization of nationalistic awareness. At 11-minutes…
The recent violence at the Republican Guards headquarters has left the country reeling, media institutions included. As the latest development in a…
On Tuesday, the Muslim Brotherhood released a statement preemptively absolving itself from “plans to shed blood and spread sectarianism” while simultaneously warning of…
Eight people died in all-night clashes at the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters in Moqattam, state television reported Monday, at the day that marked…
