Finding bureaucracy a new home
Thousands of people flow in and out of downtown Cairo’s Mugamma al-Tahrir building daily, but a government announcement indicates that the iconic structure will be emptied of government offices by 2017. The…
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Thousands of people flow in and out of downtown Cairo’s Mugamma al-Tahrir building daily, but a government announcement indicates that the iconic structure will be emptied of government offices by 2017. The…
Mariam Naoum, Tamer Abu Ghazalan, Arab shorts, a big book fair, and more.
Egypt’s travel industry is watching anxiously as experts and officials air competing explanations for the deadly crash of EgyptAir flight MS804 last week. The effect the crash will ultimately have…
Khan is a master of character-driven stories.
As soon as we give in to the idea that we are nothing but private citizens we’ve given up 99 percent of the battle.
From the global Occupy movement to Egyptian revolutionaries’ calls for “bread, freedom and social justice,” inequality has been a rallying point for social movements and a talking point for political…
Amany Aly's newborn son has been sick twice in the last three months with a cough and cold, nothing out of the ordinary for a baby. But she was unable…
Palestine is very present in Egypt’s cultural events this week.
To me, this is where solidarity can begin: by knowing, by seeing. Carefully, of course.
When a Coptic Orthodox community in an Ismailia village built a church in 2009 to avoid walking 6 km to the closest church in a nearby city, their Muslim neighbors…
On May 14, in a cabin called Babel at Turin Book Fair’s Pavilion 3, Egyptian author Ahdaf Soueif and Iraqi novelist Sinan Antoun read excerpts of Mahmoud Darwish’s poetry, including…
Investigative judge Abdel Shafy Othman summoned rights lawyer Negad al-Borai, head of the United Group, for interrogation on Tuesday May 17. This will be the fifth time Borai has been…
Having grown up in Shubra myself, I was immediately sucked into Naim Sabry’s novel and finished its 233 pages in a few days.
Andeel on the regular collaborative night between Eish & Malh and Cimatheque.
As survivors of a major fire in downtown Cairo last week take toll of the dramatic few days they lived with flames, smoke and ashes, they blame the government for…
Chronic: On Psychological Exhaustion as a Public State, which shows at the Contemporary Image Collective until June 4, tackles a difficult question: How do you organize an exhibition in a…
It started on the internet but may end in the street, which the regime thinks it can totally control — just like it thinks Atfal al-Shawarea threatens its existence.
Twenty-five people in Aswan accused of committing acts of murder and violence in a brutal tribal battle two years ago have been referred to the grand mufti, a step that…
Tarek Ghanem on why Yasser Abdel Latif's short stories are so readable, plus a new translation of one by Karim El-Sahafi.
In his resignation letter to the Egyptian Social Democratic Party (ESDP), president and founder Mohamed Aboul Ghar wrote that his vision of developing a party has become impossible due to internal…