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Writer and activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah has been pardoned and freed from prison.

Writer and activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah has been pardoned and freed from prison.

By James Folta | September 24, 2025

On the Hip-Hop That Powers Egypt’s Ongoing Revolution

On the Hip-Hop That Powers Egypt’s Ongoing Revolution

Yasmine El Rashidi on the New Generation of Fearless Egyptian Youth

By Yasmine El Rashidi | July 12, 2023

Remembering the Egyptian Childhood I Never Had Through Its Culinary Traditions

Remembering the Egyptian Childhood I Never Had Through Its Culinary Traditions

Jasmin Attia on Homesickness and Having a Foot in More Than One Country

By Jasmin Attia | March 27, 2023

Access For Whom? On Gaining Permission to Narrate Egypt’s Past

Access For Whom? On Gaining Permission to Narrate Egypt’s Past

Alan Mikhail Navigates Bureaucracy and Identity in the Egyptian National Archives

By Alan Mikhail | January 23, 2023

How the Nation of Islam Sent Shockwaves Across 1950s America

How the Nation of Islam Sent Shockwaves Across 1950s America

And Won the Support of Nasser’s Egypt

By Shahan Mufti | November 23, 2022

Today's hero: the 82-year-old Egyptian man who has collected 15,000 books for his community.

Today's hero: the 82-year-old Egyptian man who has collected 15,000 books for his community.

By Jessie Gaynor | September 8, 2022

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Reading Mahfouz: Egyptian Literature Between Old and New, Freedom and Censorship

By Mohamed Shoair | July 6, 2022

Naomi Klein on How Egypt’s Extinguished Revolution Continues to Inspire Struggle Worldwide

By Naomi Klein | April 1, 2022

What Can a Dead Egyptian Pharaoh Teach Us About the Modern World?

By Christina Riggs | February 3, 2022

How Did the Arab Spring Change Fiction?

How Did the Arab Spring Change Fiction?

Talya Zax Looks to Post-Revolutionary Literature

By Talya Zax | November 29, 2021

Notes From a Cairo Bookseller

Notes From a Cairo Bookseller

Nadia Wassef Reflects on Owning the First Modern Egyptian Bookstore of its Kind

By Nadia Wassef | October 4, 2021

How Cairo Became a Cosmopolitan Destination in the 1920s

How Cairo Became a Cosmopolitan Destination in the 1920s

Raphael Cormack on Egypt's Interwar Nightlife Boom

By Raphael Cormack | March 18, 2021

Ahmed Naji on Nights in Prison: ‘You Started to Believe That You Could Design Your Dreams’

Ahmed Naji on Nights in Prison: ‘You Started to Believe That You Could Design Your Dreams’

Otherppl">In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | February 10, 2021

André Aciman: On Yearning for the Not-Yet and What Could Have Been

André Aciman: On Yearning for the Not-Yet and What Could Have Been

"The irrealis mood disrupts all verbal tenses, moods, and aspects."

By André Aciman | January 21, 2021

Deported at the Dawn of the Syrian War

Deported at the Dawn of the Syrian War

to Leave for Damascus">After a Decade in the US, Lawand Kiki was Forced
to Leave for Damascus

By Mike Giglio | December 18, 2019

What If We Called It the 'Flax Age' Instead of the 'Iron Age'?

What If We Called It the 'Flax Age' Instead of the 'Iron Age'?

Correcting the Historical Bias Against Domestic Materials

By Kassia St. Clair | November 19, 2019

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