In Émile Zola's novel La Fortune des Rougon, first in a 20-volume epic titled Les Rougon-Macquart, there is a love story in the backdrop of the 1851 coup d'etat in…
For Ashraf Fayadh, a Palestinian poet sentenced in Saudi Arabia.
“You should have seen the imploded children you have killed in your last air raid,” said the little prince to the air force pilot he had chanced on planet F52.…
Transposition (From “The autobiography of Sidi al-Shaarani”) Merchants gifted me silver and gold. I spread the coins on a platter; they were taken away by hands that had just shown humility in…
So much good has happened since the Sphinx fell silent. The longer he keeps his mouth closed the more he becomes an ingrate. So much evil has…
The metro in Ramadan is a mobile mosque. The dry lips recite verses from plastic-covered Qurans. They say prayers, like the prayers of the Ancients, “easy on the tongue, vital for…
«The political drama of Greece’s debt — which has only entered a new chapter with the latest deal in Brussels — kept reminding me of an…»
«There may not be enough water for everybody to get all they want from the Nile’s waters, but sharing the burdens as well as the benefits…»
«Scrolling through pictures on the Internet the other day in the middle of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, two struck me as incongruous. One photograph was of…»
«Whether out of bureaucratic inertia, miscalculation or intention, the Egyptian government made a cease-fire proposal in the early days of the ongoing Israeli invasion of Gaza.…»
«The political scene that has unfolded in Egypt since July 1, 2013, when General Sisi led the ouster of President Morsi, has been by all accounts detrimental…»
«Ethiopia is forging ahead with the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile, which it began more than three years ago,…»
