Jahd is a Cairo-based journalist who has contributed to the Los Angeles Times, Al-Monitor, Deustche Welle, and other outlets.
About five minutes in, each piece of art began triggering thoughts about my own moles.
On certain momentous days, only three men know the headline of the flagship state newspaper Al-Ahram before it is sent to the printers. Even the layout designers remain in the…
After experiencing The Surface of Spectral Scattering, you’re unsure whether to think of the universe as infinitely big, or about yourself as insignificantly small.
Waiting for a chartered jet at Cairo Airport earlier this month, brothers Mostafa and Mahmoud Bakry schmoozed with a 50-odd crowd of journalists, entertainers, businessmen and campaigners for presidential candidate…
In the small, rural towns of Minya, everyone seems to know everyone else’s business. So it was odd that the mechanic in the town of Bani Mazar knew so little about his…
In just 17 months, Field Marshall Abdel Fattah al-Sisi went from little-known colonel general to a national hero. His journey is that of a career soldier with humble origins,…
Thousands assembled at the Rabea al-Adaweya Mosque on Sunday afternoon, guarding the stronghold of the Islamists’ counter-protest against mass demonstrations demanding President…
