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