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

Love … Actually

February might be the official month of love. However, in our Arabic and Egyptian intangible heritage, love is celebrated all year through the volumes of narratives about love interwoven with legends…

Amira el Noshokaty

Whirling Away Stereotypes

The sounds of music were loud in a dinner hall inside one of the floating restaurants in Cairo’s upscaleneighbourhoodofMaadi. Outside the hall,HanaaMoustafa, 35, was preparing to enter and perform…

Menna A. Farouk

A Vintage Phone

‘All that you left behind’ is what this compilation of short stories is about. A brief history of the intangible heritage of Cairo, the city that conquers all. Born in 1958, writer…

Amira el Noshokaty