Jahd Khalil
 
Jahd is a Cairo-based journalist who has contributed to the Los Angeles Times, Al-Monitor, Deustche Welle, and other outlets.
 
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features
exhibition reviews • 8 min read
Birthmark as colonial inspiration: Shady Elnoshokaty at Gypsum
Jahd Khalil | About five minutes in, each piece of art began triggering thoughts about my own moles.
15 November 2015
Al-Ahram • 8 min read
History’s scribe
Jahd Khalil | On certain momentous days, only three men know the headline of the flagship state newspaper Al-Ahram
10 June 2014
exhibition reviews • 5 min read
An artwork of scales and planes
Jahd Khalil | After experiencing The Surface of Spectral Scattering, you’re unsure whether to think of the universe
10 June 2014
2014 presidential elections • 9 min read
The old regime rallies around Sisi
Jahd Khalil | Waiting for a chartered jet at Cairo Airport earlier this month, brothers Mostafa and Mahmoud Bakry schmoozed
26 May 2014
attacks on churches • 7 min read
From Minya, after the verdict
Jahd Khalil | In the small, rural towns of Minya, everyone seems to know everyone else’s business. So it was odd
14 April 2014
2014 presidential elections • 9 min read
Meet Egypt’s next would-be president
Heba Afify and Jahd Khalil |   In just 17 months, Field Marshall Abdel Fattah al-Sisi went from little-known colonel general
26 March 2014
 
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News
Muslim Brotherhood protests • 3 min read
At Islamist protest, fear of attack pervades
30 June 2013
 
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