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Cairo, Coltrane and a fictional village
Three newly translated graphic novels
Sherif Abdel Samad
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Sherif Abdel Samad
Sherif Abdel Samad holds a PhD in American Studies from the Free University of Berlin. He wrote his dissertation on "Non-violence in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States of America". He also used to box at university.
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Shubeik Lubeik: An urban fantasy about wishes
In her debut graphic novel Shubeik Lubeik (2018), young graphic novelist Deena Mohamed Yehia (1994) draws a parable that evokes a fantastical present-day Cairo where the dreams and wishes of…
Sherif Abdel Samad
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An intricate amalgam of love, sex and politics: Nobody Mourns the City’s Cats
Six stories about love and loss against the backdrop of a failed revolution
Sherif Abdel Samad
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New Arabic translation gives Golo’s adaptation of Albert Cossery’s Proud Beggars more layers of life
Sherif Abdel Samad looks at the new Arabic translation of Golo’s and Albert Cossery’s Proud Beggars
Sherif Abdel Samad
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‘What was safety, anyway, but the sound of a bomb falling on someone else’s home?’
An interview with American War’s Omar El Akkad
Sherif Abdel Samad
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On Colombian literary giant Gabriel García Márquez as journalist
Sherif Abdel Samad looks at Márquez's journalistic works and their influence on his fiction
Sherif Abdel Samad
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Obituary: Muhammad Ali (1942-2016)
«Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Clay, grew up in Louisville, Kentucky in the 1940s, at the time of the vicious Jim Crow laws, which enforced a system of…»
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