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Writers and intellectuals gather at the Friday Session. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
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Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz (L) wrote the highly-acclaimed Cairo Trilogy. (Ulf Andersen/Getty Images)
Arabic fiction faces up to the future
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Well-known Egyptian writer Ahmed Khaled Towfik once wrote: “In fact, people in Egypt are fortunate. They do not need to read horror fiction in order to rehearse death. Horror—particularly its worst kind: fear of tomorrow—is a permanent...Caption:
A handout picture made available on June 8, 2014 by the Egyptian presidency shows President elect Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (C) reviewing the honour guard during the handing over of power ceremony in Cairo. Sisi was sworn in as Egypt’s president, formalising his de facto rule since he deposed the elected Islamist last year and crushed […]
Opinion: El-Gamaleya and the Scent of History
History can occasionally be colored by a simple quirk of fate. One such example is the Egyptian people choosing to elect President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi—a man who was born and raised in the El-Gamaleya neighborhood of Fatimid Cairo. This ancient neighborhood inspired...Caption:
Image of Naguib Mahfouz’s childhood home in Cairo, Egypt, taken on 11 December, 2013. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
The Naguib Mahfouz museum that never was
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Naguib Mahfouz is one of Egypt’s most famous writers, and the only Arab writer to have won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Mahfouz is most famous for his Cairo Trilogy, and so his name is inexorably linked with the Egyptian capital. Despite...Caption:
A woman looks at books inside an exhibition hall during the 29th annual meeting of French Muslims organized by The Union of Islamic Organizations of France (UOIF) at Le Bourget, near Paris April 7, 2012. (Reuters/Gonzalo Fuentes)