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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
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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
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