Tuesday, July 28, 2009

The Other Egypt?

›
Bilal Fadl’s latest book has an attractive title and a laudable ambition. The irresistibly named The Original Inhabitants of Egypt: Stories ...
Thursday, June 25, 2009

Talk is Cheap

›
President Barack Obama made some stirring remarks yesterday about the suppression of popular protests against the election outcome in Iran....
Thursday, June 11, 2009

Grace

›
Karima al-Hifnawy’s Diary of a Pharmacist (Dar al-Ain, 2008) is a work of quiet beauty and unusual restraint. Best known for her Kifaya and...
Friday, April 17, 2009

›
Zeinab al-Segeiny, untitled, oil on canvas
Wednesday, January 14, 2009

The Wages of Mubarak's "Realism"

›
Like many others, I’ve been watching in disbelief as the Egyptian government enables the Israeli destruction of Gaza. This time, Hosni Mubar...
Thursday, October 30, 2008

Cairene Houses

›
Sawsan Abu al-Naga, Cairene Houses (1988) oil on canvas
Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Ramadan

›
Mahmoud Said, The Reciter (1960)
Saturday, August 09, 2008

An Eclectic Life

›
Autobiography is my least favourite literary genre, too easily prone to posturing and self-exoneration, or else heavy woe-is-me tales about ...
Monday, July 28, 2008

Master Image Maker

›
When I read the sad news of Youssef Chahine’s passing, a stream of images from his films passed through my mind’s eye, fragmentary and disjo...
Monday, July 07, 2008

The Quest for Life

›
Mahmoud Mokhtar, Return from the River Limestone, 1928
Friday, May 16, 2008

Four Myths about Protest

›
It’s now widely recognized that social protest has become a staple of Egyptian politics, what some journalists and researchers have taken t...
Friday, May 09, 2008

Sorrow

›
Mahmoud Mokhtar, al-Huzn Basalt, 1927
Saturday, April 05, 2008

"We Want a Living Wage"

›
A broad coalition of blue- and white-collar national forces has called a general strike for tomorrow 6 April to demand decent living conditi...