Egypt

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
Food Memoirs

Remembering the Egyptian Childhood I Never Had Through Its Culinary Traditions

By Jasmin Attia  March 27, 2023
Archives

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

By Alan Mikhail  January 23, 2023
Islam

How the Nation of Islam Sent Shockwaves Across 1950s America

By Shahan Mufti  November 23, 2022
The Hub

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

By Jessie Gaynor  September 8, 2022
Egyptian Literature

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

By Mohamed Shoair  July 6, 2022
Technology

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

By Naomi Klein  April 1, 2022
Ancient History

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

By Christina Riggs  February 3, 2022
Arab Literature

How Did the Arab Spring Change Fiction?

By Talya Zax  November 29, 2021
Booksellers

Notes From a Cairo Bookseller

By Nadia Wassef  October 4, 2021
Post-Colonialism

How Cairo Became a Cosmopolitan Destination in the 1920s

By Raphael Cormack  March 18, 2021
Otherppl

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

By Otherppl with Brad Listi  February 10, 2021
Personal History

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

By André Aciman  January 21, 2021
War

Deported at the Dawn of the Syrian War

By Mike Giglio  December 18, 2019
Archaeology

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

By Kassia St. Clair  November 19, 2019
Modern Classics

The Writer and the Dictator:
A Love/Hate Story

By Alaa Al Aswany  July 29, 2019
Ancient History

The world’s oldest surviving letter by an actual Christian contains a request for fish sauce.

By Aaron Robertson  July 16, 2019
Politics

In Cairo, the Garbage Collector Knows Everything

By Peter Hessler  July 1, 2019
Essay

Waiting for the Day That Characters Don’t Default to White

By Deena ElGenaidi  March 12, 2019
News

On Discovering the Lost Manuscripts of Naguib Mahfouz

By Marcia Lynx Qualey  December 11, 2018
Excerpts

What a Woman Must Do to Become King

By Kara Cooney  November 8, 2018
Criticism

Is Hillary Clinton a Modern-Day Cleopatra?

By Emily Holleman  April 6, 2017
Conversations

Life in the Arab World as a White Lesbian Feminist

By Arvind Dilawar  November 22, 2016
Excerpts

Chronicle of a Last Summer

By Lit Hub Excerpts  June 28, 2016
Translation

10 Books By Arab Women Writers That Should Be Translated

By Marcia Lynx Qualey  June 20, 2016
Feature

New Arabic Fiction: 5 Contemporary Short Stories

By Literary Hub  May 12, 2016
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