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book reviews • 14 min read

What I didn’t tell the officer: a review of Randa Shaath’s The Sand Mountain

Shady Zalat | "The Sand Mountain? Hmmm … Is this a political novel, Mr. Shady?”

20 February 2020

book reviews • 16 min read

Detox: Issue 02

Our weekly guide to help you unwind during the weekend.

6 September 2019

book reviews • 16 min read

Detox: Issue 01

WHAT’S UP? For Detox’s new weekly segment, Chit-chat, we have a guest! Make sure you keep reading

30 August 2019

book reviews • 22 min read

Cairo, Coltrane and a fictional village

Sherif Abdel Samad | I delved into Nool’s first three titles in an attempt to get a feel for the direction they’re taking

28 August 2019

book reviews • 14 min read

Detox: Issue 00

Our suggestions are meant to urge you to sit back, relax and reflect — detox, if you will.

22 August 2019

book reviews • 58 min read

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

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

7 June 2019

book reviews • 7 min read

A slice of life in a Sudanese prison

Mai Elwakil | On the recently issued reproduction of Ibrahim El-Salahi’s Prison Notebook

24 March 2019

literature • 9 min read

An intricate amalgam of love, sex and politics: Nobody Mourns the City’s Cats

Sherif Abdel Samad | Six stories about love and loss against the backdrop of a failed revolution

19 February 2019

book reviews • 14 min read

A treasure trove of Egyptian food

Hala N. Barakat | An Iraqi food writer unearths and translates a manuscript on Egyptian medieval cooking

25 August 2018

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Opinion

Paul Sedra

Religious Difference in a Secular Age: Book review

The Egyptian state’s pretense of secularism is central to Saba Mahmood’s latest monograph, Religious

8 May 2016