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Something about projecting the cab driver as a doorway into Egyptian society makes me uncomfortable.
On January 28, 2011, Mohamed Soliman stood between protesters and police forces in Ramses Square and screamed “peaceful.” The next thing he remembers, people around him yelled that a protester…
A few days back, on January 25, on the way home from the office I got stuck in what felt like an eternal Sisi Day Parade. It was like something out of…
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…
Malak Helmy’s latest body of work, The Passions of the Trash Drive: A Group Exhibition, was beautiful yet unfathomable.
Egyptian Cabinet members explain roadmap progress at the World Economic Forum while instigating measures to boost economic output; Arab neighbours take the lion's share in FDI in 2014, and local…
“This is the first step along the road,” a smiling young man sings in the video for “Inzil wa sharek” (Go down and take part), a song paid for by…
January 23, 2014 Dear Lina, Adly Mansour is on TV. My father tells me, “It isn't as bad as you think.” I sit begrudgingly to listen, but the tag-line…
In early June, when I was writing an article about Tamarod (or “Rebel,” a grassroots initiative that campaigned for former President Mohamed Morsi’s ouster), I found that it wasn’t the…
Graffiti for two .. Alaa and Douma (1) I know that despair is treason but the revolutionary in my country — even if he’s a sinless prophet — when he…
An early morning bombing outside the Cairo Security Directorate building shook the capital's Abdeen neighborhood on Friday, killing four and injuring dozens more, according to the government. Large crowds gathered at the…
On July 3, the “We are all Khaled Saeed” Facebook page posted a transcription of Colonel General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's decree removing former President Mohamed Morsi from power. After that,…
Walking into Tahrir Square during the 18 days of the January 25 revolution in 2011, you could hear a single chant being echoed throughout the square that called for the…
To Mona & Sanaa: I miss you a lot, although I see you more when I'm in jail than when I'm free. Maybe because when I'm out of jail, I'm…
Being a gay man in Egypt is already a struggle without this film and its tired old clichés, lurid misinformation, and badly played out melodrama to contend with, says Sarah…
An interview with filmmaker Ahmed Awaad, when he was the head of Egypt’s censorship board in 2014.
Following several steps to tighten its grip on Egypt’s mosques, the Ministry of Endowments has unexpectedly decided to shift the affiliation of Al-Azhar mosque, placing it under the auspices of…
This week I thought why not leave my comfort zone, my beloved Zamalek, and head somewhere busier and more diverse? Mohandiseen was my choice. It has vivid shopping streets and…
The memoir of Abdel Hameed Gouda al-Sahar is a rare example of an Egyptian intellectual telling of his encounters with Egyptian Jews during the country’s so-called Belle Époque era.
This week, the government pursued the long awaited value added tax in replacement of sales tax, a move that is expected to raise tax revenues significantly. Meanwhile, the CBE decided…
