There are over a quarter of a million Egyptian immigrants working in the United Arab Emirates today--or rather, that is the number of those registered officially with the Egyptian Ministry of Manpower and Immigration. Egyptians--alongside Indians, (...)
Novelist Hamdi Abu Golayyel hails from a Bedouin village in the Fayoum area of Middle Egypt. His ancestors settled there in the first half of the 19th century, in the time of Egyptian Khedive Muhammad Ali, after emigrating from Libya. The origins of (...)
What first drew him to the translation profession, says Humphrey Davies, was the fact that it was “a way of learning, of putting oneself in others' shoes.” His numerous and acclaimed translations include Alaa Al Aswany's The Yacoubian Building, (...)
American cartoonist Joe Sacco has more or less invented a new category of reporting: graphic journalism--"graphic" in both senses of the word, as the stories he chooses to cover, in comic-strip form, are always from war-torn parts of the (...)