Freedom Book Fair: Farah Barqawi
“Women usually hesitate to call themselves a writer, or a translator. They would rather say: I write, I translate.” Farah Barqawi has passed that…
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Freedom Book Fair: Canan Marasligil
She is writing a book about translation and why she translates. In French, dotted with Turkish words when her heart calls for it. Canan…
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Peshawar portraits drawn into revival
Moshtari Hilal is an illustrator based in Hamburg (Germany), where she studies Middle Eastern Studies and Politics. In July, her book We Were Drawn…
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From b-boy to street photographer
We live in a world awash with photographic images. Saturated, even. Leaving the Kim Kardashians and Justin Biebers of our time aside, today’s focus…
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Souad Massi brings a hint of Andalusia to Cairo Jazz Festival
It is springtime. The year is 950. You are in Córdoba, the capital of Al-Andalus, Islamic Spain. You saunter towards the Great Mosque, strolling…
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Tanger and Cairo, two illustrators’ muses
Plenty of illustrators have found an endless source of inspiration in the world’s biggest cities. Remember how, years ago, a man called Stephen Wiltshire…
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‘Sidewalk Salon’ rediscovers Cairo through its chairs
Many Cairenes probably agree that Friday mornings in the Egyptian capital are the best. Exhibit one: the number of friends who have decided to take…
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From Cairo to Bethlehem: a dialog with Samar Hazboun
4:48 pm. I’m 18 minutes late. Samar Hazboun is waiting for me on the other side of the Skype line, on the other side…
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Two revolutions paralleled by one theatre play
Two women. One passionately giving a lecture about the 1919 revolution that would lead to Egyptian independence, the other interrupting her cynically with personal stories….
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Street art in Malaysia: a blessing or a curse?
Aah, Malaysia. Pearly white beaches, crystal clear water. Snorkelling in the company of turtles, strolling through food courts, eating blue rice, smelling the unrivaled…
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