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literary gems • 9 min read
Egypt’s Literary Gems: Mansoura Ez-Eldin’s The Refuge of Absence
Tarek Ghanem | Ez-Eldin’s stories take us on an honest, eclectic and endlessly creative tour
6 August 2019
literature • 9 min read
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
literature • 10 min read
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 • 10 min read
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 • 12 min read
Literary gems: Gone are the Days of the Pearls
Ismail Fayed | On pearls, psychoanalysis and pre-oil nostalgia.
18 August 2016
literary gems • 9 min read
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
Ihab Hassan • 10 min read
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
book reviews • 10 min read
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
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