Mohamed Salmawy - the playwright, former colleague and close friend of Naguib Mahfouz - was one of the few people to tend to Mahfouz during his last weeks in the hospital. Many of Mahfouz's other friends, whom he met regularly every week, felt (...)
Paula Sanders' "Creating Medieval Cairo is not a quick read for an average tourist, but a book for the more serious observers and students. It is a meticulously researched book with more than 50 pages of notes and bibliography at the back to prove (...)
"It isn't there any more! It's gone! They've built on it!
These words sent shivers down my spine and the sense of loss was overwhelming. I should have known it would happen eventually.
It was happening all over Maadi. Huge buildings going up (...)