BETHLEHEM, West Bank: Any planned trips into the West Bank require the admission that most people in the Middle East aren't free to travel within Israel and even those that are, are daily subjected to delays, hassle, and worse at the border (...)
BETHLEHEM: Any planned trips into the West Bank require the admission that most people in the Middle East aren’t free to travel within Israel and even those that are, are daily subjected to delays, hassle, and worse at the border crossings. So for (...)
CAIRO: What people see, hear, and read matters. It shapes what individuals think and how they act. Consequently, LGBT rights activists in Egypt and the Middle East are particularly sensitive to images and representations of sexuality propagated in (...)
MT. SINAI: As an expatriate living in Cairo, one occasionally abandons oneself to the temptations of brazen tourism. Thus I found myself atop Gabel Mousa (also known as Mt. Sinai) with my wife and my visiting sister and father. Once we arrived at (...)
CAIRO: Affectionately known as “The Mother of the World,” modern Cairo is home to her diverse and oft-conflicting offspring. One cannot help imagining both her grief over the gaps of understanding and enmity expressed herein alongside her mother's (...)
BETHLEHEM: Any planned trips into the West Bank require the admission that most people in the Middle East aren’t free to travel within Israel and even those that are, are daily subjected to delays, hassle, and worse at the border crossings. So for (...)
For American filmmaker Steve York, documenting opposition movements and nonviolent resistance has become somewhat of a specialty over the past decade and a half. 2008’s Cairo Human Rights Film Festival featured York’s “Bringing Down a (...)
CAIRO: The 2009 Cairo Human Rights Film Festival commences next week with screenings from December 20 through the 23. The Festival’s screenings will be hosted at El Balad Bookstore across from the American University in Cairo’s Tahrir campus in (...)
CAIRO: The al-Maadi metro stop just south of Cairo's city center feels like a gateway between two worlds. On one side there is KFC, a gaggle of supermarkets, a clustering of banks, even a Cinnabon. On the other side of the tracks, literally, is home (...)
CAIRO: In October, the American Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life released its comprehensive report, “Mapping the Global Muslim Population.†The ambitious project numbers both the population and the distribution of the world’s Muslims, (...)
CAIRO: A survey of taxis around the city would leave one thinking the Egyptian musical landscape consists of little more than Um Kulthoum, Saudis reciting the Quran, Amr Diab, and a few other contemporary pop singers. But Makan, a sub project of the (...)
CAIRO: Tensions between the Coptic Orthodox Church and Coptic evangelicals resurfaced this week, excited by accusations presented at a recent Orthodox doctrinal conference in al-Fayyoum. According to Al-Masry Al-Youm, Bishop Bishoy, the secretary (...)
Saturday evening Darb 17 18 opened the doors to its latest exhibition, “Khobzâ€, or “Breadâ€, which features 12 different artists orbiting the subject of the show’s title. The concept originated with Darb 17 18’s director Moataz Nasr, who (...)
In the still lingering summer heat, a crowd of Egyptian men pressed against the gates of the al-Ahly Club on the west side of Zamalek at noon on Monday. One individual, ostensibly mid-koshari (traditional lentils and rice dish) delivery, explained (...)