On a summer day in 1971, writer Naguib Mahfouz was sitting with fellow novelist Gamal al-Ghitani at their customary spot at Orabi Cafe in Cairo when…
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On a summer day in 1971, writer Naguib Mahfouz was sitting with fellow novelist Gamal al-Ghitani at their customary spot at Orabi Cafe in Cairo when…
In 1917, shortly after the Ottoman Empire and the Central Powers suffered defeat, Prince Fahd Al-Atrash and his family boarded a ship to escape from…
In Midnight in Cairo (published in 2020), Raphael Cormack recounts the hardships and struggles of female artists in Cairo’s theatres, cabarets, and…
Egyptian star Layla Murad, who died in 1995, certainly had a life worth examining.She embodied the complexities of the first wave of Arab female…