Baheyya: Egypt Analysis and Whimsy بهيّة

Since Monday, thousands of tax collectors from the Real Estate Tax Authority have made a downtown street their home. They've converged o...

Thursday’s sentencing and fining of four independent newspaper editors is not particularly new or surprising. And neither is the impending ...

Hasan Sulayman (b. 1928), Alley in Cairo (1955)

I was a bookish child, and spent endless hours immersed in fantastic stories, tales peopled with strange and wonderful characters getting th...

Since he emerged on the literary scene in the mid-1960s with his elliptical, allusive, deceptively simple short stories that deeply impresse...

T alented photographer Amr Abdallah at al-Masry al-Yawm has kindly shared his photos of citizens' daily struggle for water , here in G...

On Monday, 23 July, stay at home and raise Egypt’s flag. That’s the initiative adopted by Kifaya and a half dozen other groups to inaugurat...

Egypt is so rife with protest these days it’s difficult and crucial to keep track. On any given day, at least one group of citizens takes to...

Arty Topalian, Seated Fellaha (ca. 1950s) .

In what I think is a first in Egyptian political history, on Sunday 18 March, 102 opposition legislators began a boycott of parliament’s ple...

There are few more profoundly grotesque and unjust practices in Egypt’s republican history than presidential referrals of civilians to milit...