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…