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Literary gems: Adel Esmat’s The Tales of Yusuf Tadrus

Sherif Abdel Samad | Adel Esmat imagines himself a Coptic Christian in this recent novel, which Sherif Abdel Samad finds mesmerizing

9 May 2017

Literary gems: Latifa al-Zayat’s The Open Door

Ismail Fayed | A novel that enmeshes the struggle of ambitious young women with the national independence struggle

31 March 2017

Literary gems: Nawal Saadawi’s The Fall of the Imam

Ismail Fayed | Saadawi has long been though of as a pioneering feminist and a mediocre novelist

8 March 2017

Literary gems: Gone are the Days of the Pearls

Ismail Fayed | On pearls, psychoanalysis and pre-oil nostalgia.

18 August 2016

Literary gems: Shubra

Sherif Abdel Samad | Having grown up in Shubra myself, I was immediately sucked into Naim Sabry’s novel and finished its

17 May 2016

Literary gems: On being Egyptian and Ihab Hassan’s Out of Egypt

Tarek Ghanem | Whether or not you endorse all of Hassan’s choices, particularly his rejection of Egypt, the depth

19 February 2016

Egypt’s literary gems: Malim the Great

Sherif Abdel Samad | For our first literary gem from Egypt, Sherif Abdel Samad tackles Adel Kamel's laugh-out-loud satire

31 January 2016