Said Khatibi on confronting Algeria’s Black Decade

After winning the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, the Algerian novelist reflects on memory, violence, and his country's unresolved past

El-Sayed Hussein

Of Cannibals (Part Three)

When the Brexit fever was at its height, and the words ‘febrile’ and ‘torrid’ seemed to be on every pundit’s lips, along with ‘free movement,’ ‘cake and eat it’ and the godawful ‘Brexit’ itself, I…

Bryn Haworth

The Dismal Kingdom

The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society.Binyamin Appelbaum. Little, Brown, 2019. 448pp. Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American…

Paul Romer

Animating Egypt

Egypt was the first in the Arab world and Africa to establish an animation production. In 1934, the pioneering brothers Solomon, David and Frankel Herschel (recent immigrants from Soviet Belarus) who…

Yasmine El Geressi

Of Cannibals (Part Two)

I’ve always had a lot of time for sceptics. In some cases, you had to have a lot of time. There was the one who landed up in a ditch and refused to come out till someone could prove he was actually…

Bryn Haworth