Lina Mahmoud attends events marking International Women's Day
"In the name of 2,400 Egyptian families, in the name of oppressed women whose husbands, brothers and sons have been detained since last October, I declare that we will resist until our (...)
One of the most distinguished guests of honour to have attended the Cairo Book Fair, Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer was at the centre of a surprisingly uneventful seminar last week: Lina Mahmoud reports
"Of course there really is a roof -- the tent (...)
By Lina Mahmoud
AN ICON REMEMBERED: Last week the Supreme Council of Culture celebrated the 100th anniversary of writer Yehya Haqqi, reports Lina Mahmoud, a central figure in 20th-century Arabic literature. An innovative novelist and short story (...)
Egyptian activists, joined by a small international contingent, never made it to Rafah. Lina Mahmoud takes an interrupted bus ride
At 6am last Friday about 200 activists boarded buses parked in front of downtown's Bar Association headquarters. (...)
The Spanish band Radio Tarifa gave their second Egyptian concert in the new open-air theatre at the Citadel last Thursday, writes Lina Mahmoud, having started a tour organised by the Spanish Embassy in Alexandria, closer to home. The popularity of (...)
The prosecutor-general has refused to re-open the Maadi nursery school sexual abuse case. Lina Mahmoud reports on how shocking the decision was for the alleged victims
A late July appeal to the prosecutor- general by some 28 non-governmental (...)
The debate over child sexual abuse in Egypt is far from resolved. Lina Mahmoud reports
In a press conference last week Prosecutor- General Maher Abdel-Wahed announced the closure of the Maadi nursery case on the grounds of "insufficient evidence". (...)
Do you want to change your lifestyle? Lina Mahmoud talks to some Egyptians investigating health options that incorporate both body and soul
Two thousand five hundred years ago Hippocrates, "the father of medicine", said to his students: "Let thy (...)
The Maadi child molestation case breaks the silence on the sexual abuse of children. Lina Mahmoud investigates
Last Saturday the prosecutor-general abruptly announced the closure of the child molestation case in Norhan Nursery in Maadi on the (...)
As the Eid Al-Adha approaches, Lina Mahmoud investigates the dynamics of meat eating in the light of inflation and mad cow disease
"The government and the press are scaring people with all this talk of mad cow disease," Shadiah Mohamed, an imported (...)
Lina Mahmoud interviews young women whose lives have been transformed by their participation in Cairo's recent anti-war demonstrations
The image that comes to mind when one thinks of a "protester" in the Middle East is usually that of a man, perhaps (...)
Lina Mahmoud finds chicken instead of beef served at scaled-down Sudanese weddings in Cairo
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The bride's family sat on the left side, and the groom's on the right. Between them stood a man, a mediator who loudly repeated (...)