The permanent revolution: From Cairo to Paris with the Egyptian surrealists

Two independent exhibitions commemorate an important chapter of Egyptian Modernism.

Sudan Nashra: Govt sources say Khartoum refuses entry to fact-finding mission as it warns of a Fasher repeat in Kordofan | Prime minister absent from major continental forum, declaration recommends designating RSF terrorist group | Military adopts attrition tactics in Kordofan, RSF pushes to capture Babanusa

Global efforts to expand humanitarian access and investigate violations after Fasher’s fall are running up against Khartoum’s attempts to control the terms of access as supply corridors become…

A history of the state told through the senses: A conversation with Khaled Fahmy

In All the Pasha’s Men, Fahmy took up the narrative of Mohammed Ali’s construction of modern Egypt

‘Hungover’: Reflections on the routes and residue of 1968

1968 might have been a political failure but it has also spurred ideas that remain relevant today

Is the government building a parallel bureaucracy?

Power is concentrated in the presidency and military at the expense of other state institutions