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In Other Words • 34 min read
In Other Words | The Beauty of the World and the Truth of All Things by Rehab Bassam
Rehab Bassam | Bassam’s fiction speaks for a generation of women that seems to have no voice in publishing.
14 December 2020
detox • 17 min read
Detox | Suspending disbelief
What is faith without an imagination vivid enough to fill the gaps?
17 October 2020
detox • 17 min read
Detox | Translating Baldwin, translating ‘magic’
Yasmine Zohdi | There’s no harm in a new translation especially as it’s been a lifetime since the last was published
22 August 2020
detox • 8 min read
Detox | Navigating ‘same-name’ confusion
What is a name, and what do you do when you share it with someone you don’t even know?
14 August 2020
detox • 12 min read
Detox | Summer absurdities
A battle is raging at the coast, too — namely over what women should or should not wear on the beach
25 July 2020
detox • 10 min read
Detox | ‘Everything’s gonna be alright’
Well, we all know what’s up, and it’s not pretty.
4 July 2020
detox • 13 min read
Detox | Cease your reproach
A set of rules is only powerful because people make it so.
20 June 2020
In Other Words • 38 min read
In Other Words | Two O’Clock on a Tuesday Afternoon by Muhammad El-Hajj
Muhammad El-Hajj | They needed a revolution to come together, and without its triumph their love, too, stood no chance
18 June 2020
book review • 21 min read
Learning the proper posture to become an internet imposter while reading Impostures
Matthew Chovanec | These days we’re all trying to hide on the internet.
3 June 2020
 
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Opinion
Menna Ekram
Madame Defarge reminds us of the core of her revolution
I started writing the names of every famous person who came to show support to that man.
10 January 2021
Alaa Abd El Fattah
Five metaphors on healing
Suffering is not sacrifice and the body is not a machine. The pain is not yours alone
26 September 2019
Teresa Pepe
‘Literature’ is on trial in Egypt
In August 2014, an Egyptian citizen named Hani Saleh Tawfik came across issue 1097 of literary magazine
13 November 2015
 
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News
Ahmed Naji • 3 min read
Writer Ahmed Naji prevented from leaving Egypt
6 July 2017
freedom of expression • 5 min read
Ahmed Naji’s lawyers await details of his acquittal and retrial date
30 May 2017
Ahmed Naji • 3 min read
Jailed novelist Ahmed Naji to receive PEN award
31 March 2016
Ahmed Naji • 4 min read
Trial of Ahmed Naji and editor begins for writing sexually explicit text
14 November 2015
Alexandria • 4 min read
The Cairo International Book Fair expands
27 February 2014
 
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Cartoons
literature
A question for our president
Andeel | Woman: "So what's the last book you read?"Sisi: "What is this stupid question?"
12 October 2015
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