Immortalize them, ya baladna , immortalize them.
Immortalize them as they did you, lest you thrive and prosper.
Suez, 1967
Thus goes a haunting tune of “The People of the Canal”, sung to me as a testament to the “semsemeyya that remembers those whom (...)
As dark clouds of smoke billowed out to sea, a blazing red sun set to end a day of street battles with no telling what was to come. On 28 January in Alexandria almost every police station in the city was on fire, state security trucks were upside (...)
No song better depicts the struggle for Cairo's streets than Salah Jahin's "Al-Sharaa Lemin?" (For Whom are These Streets?).
“These streets are ours, and ours only, and as for these others, they are not of us,” goes the chorus. For Cairo's (...)
Real freedom lies in reclaiming the territory of individual and collective imagination, writes Alia Mossallam*
Laken, el Sharee' Le-min?
El Share' Lena! Ehna Lewahdenna!
Wel nas el tanyeen, dol mesh menenna
dul nas ananeyeen, fi makanhum waafin,
dul (...)
