As Egypt's ongoing political battle heats up, Egypt bid farewell on Monday to two new 'martyrs,' aged 15 and 16, in two emotional and painful funerals – one on Mohamed Mahmoud Street near Cairo's Tahrir Square and the other in the Nile Delta city of (...)
Egypt's old regime, headed by ousted President Hosni Mubarak, used a number of tactics to try and stop the 25 January Revolution from gaining ground. Many feel that the most devastating of those were in the security field.
During the 18 days of (...)
Ibrahim Fathi reviews the dramatisation of the life of , the young American activist crushed beneath an Israeli bulldozer
My Name is was first staged in London at the Royal Court, Jerwood Theatre Upstairs on 7 April 2005, then on 11 October 2005 at (...)
's novel Laylat 'Urs, which will appear in an English translation later this year after winning the American University in Cairo's 2005 Naguib Mahfouz medal, depicts a suffocating reality through the prism of village life, writes Ibrahim Fathi
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