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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

Historiographical frustrations: Writing the history of the 1967 defeat

Osman El Sharnoubi | "The documents are damning. The state doesn’t want you to find out the scandalous way it did its business."

8 June 2017

Video: How can we fit the world into folders?

Lara El Gibaly, Nael El Toukhy and Rowan El Shimi | This Alexandrian bookseller has independently created a massive scholarly archive

14 February 2017

The uprising will not be filmed: Cinematic representations of the 1977 bread riots

Adham Youssef | Film seems to have largely neglected the 1977 bread riots

31 January 2017

I like collecting ugly things: On Amgad Naguib’s Townhouse show

Ifdal Elsaket | A show about the magnitude of what gets left out and the futility of capturing the past's messiness.

8 December 2016

We Are Egyptian Armenians, and that’s all you need to know

Lara El Gibaly | If we judge this film as a history lesson, it is quite successful.

23 November 2016

Do historians marginalize the Red Sea?

Reem Askalan | Alexis Wick's new book, The Red Sea: In Search of Lost Space, asks why the Red Sea never became a proper

1 August 2016

The power of historical fiction: Two revolutions revisited

Sherif Abdel Samad | Historical fiction, if well-researched, offers readers a more personal and multilayered approach to history,

31 July 2016

The burden of the witness: Yasmine El Rashidi’s Chronicle of a Last Summer

Lara El Gibaly | Lara El Gibaly reviews Yasmine El Rashidi's stunning debut novel, Chronicle of a Last Summer: An intimate

30 June 2016

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