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“We, Muslim Brotherhood youth, were banned and chained. And we weren't better off within the group. They [group leaders] always…

Former President Hosni Mubarak was sent the same message in a variety of different ways: high quality posters, ragged cardboard,…

Many Western novels about Egypt risk emphasizing common stereotypes. But British novelist Paul Sussman is an exception. Through several bestselling…

For many years, the field of Arabic-English translation was dominated by a very few. Denys Johnson-Davies, who Edward Said called…

In Abla al-Roweiny’s first editorial in Akhbar al-Adab, Egypt’s weekly literary journal, she writes about a different “space” that is…

At a mid-May symposium at the American University in Cairo, students from “Translating the Revolution” class of Samia Mehrez -…

Last March, the New York based OR Books published the first Twitter book ever, Tweets from Tahrir: Egypt’s revolution as…

Renowned satirical writer, Omar Taher, published his latest book Berma Yoqabel Rayya we Sekina (Berma Meets Rayya and Sekina) earlier…

Fadhil al-Azzawi’s The Traveler and the Innkeeper (American University Press, 2011, trans William M. Hutchins) treads much the same ground…

Discussions of Muslim-Coptic relations have been riding the post-25 January swing of hope, denial and despair. In one moment, Muslims…