The title of my lecture today “Mapping Cairo” consciously evokes the Arab historiographical genre of khitat that persisted well into the nineteenth century and was especially developed in Egypt. Perhaps two of the most prominent examples of this (...)
No one provides a better example of the vexed relationship of the state vis-à-vis cultural production, writes Samia Mehrez*
As an Egyptian writer, Naguib Mahfouz has always been acutely aware of the relationship between literature and politics and (...)
