In her memoir Al-Sarkhah (The Scream), the late Egyptian writer and activist Radwa Ashour comments on her post-surgery isolation in Denmark and long-distance solidarity with the 2013 struggle in Egypt. She circles back from Al-Rihlah (The Journey), (...)
For nearly 100 years, Egyptian women have marched into the public sphere to demand independence side by side with men. On 16 March, 1919, nearly 300 Egyptian women of all classes, led by the first Egyptian feminist Huda Shaarawi, marched against the (...)
At the start of the 25 January Revolution, Tahrir inspired poetry and an abundance of other art forms; it made and remade genres, which underwrote the revolutionary movement throughout 2011 and 2012. Tahrir, and the national desire for tahrir (or (...)
Gamal Abel-Nasser's granddaughter looks back on the 1952 revolution, which promised independence, social justice and economic revitalisation, promises which Egypt's second revolution in 60 years, sought to fulfill
This year marks the sixtieth (...)