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Two versions of the Arab Spring in 100 words
Egypt was a dictatorial hell, 25 Jan put it on the road to heaven. It veered off under the MB, and 30 June was to bring it back on course. But then the military staged a coup to co-opt the transition...
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RT @sultans_seal: Tweets through a glass pane
@Sultans_Seal If not being allowed to have strong opinions is not #censorship I’m not sure what is Western outrage at #Egypt‘s treatment of #MB continues to shock and awe me. Where do you get off,...
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Jassmi, Take Three
. When a UAE-based Palestinian friend sends me a link to the Emirati singer Hussein Al-Jassmi’s hit Boshret khair (or “Good Tidings”), I wonder what she finds remarkable about the video. After Tesslam...
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Hoarseness: A Legend of Contemporary Cairo
The White Review . U. Mubarak It kind of grows out of traffic. The staccato hiss of an exhaust pipe begins to sound like record scratching. Skidding and braking, the vehicles resume their car horn...
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Secrets & Highs
Or the Beatification of the False Wali: Sufism, Suspense, and the Possibility of Sufi Realism Even as it ages, a corpse shows no sign of decay. People start having visions of the dead man. He gives...
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RC: A Story in Tweets
Baba shows up the night Murad’s body arrives. It’s revolution day, he says. How come you’re not celebrating? Ghosts are funny that way. Murad came back in two packages. He was hit in the neck, they...
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DRY NILE SONG
Sing, Adaweyah! of the microbus’s wrath That, rattling death and venom-fuming, a demented sphinx, Carves through the flesh of traffic like missilery, And brings car-owning Pasha to his knee. Sing of...
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Back to the Future: The Golden Age of Egyptian Cinema
Cairo International Film Festival Essay #1 The Cut (Bulletin cover by Youssef Rakha) The golden age of Egyptian cinema survived the fall of the monarchy, the departure of the British, the...
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Mit Nama | A New Extract from “Paulo” (Crocodiles II)
Reblogged from qisasukhra, translated by Robin Moger Visit Egypt 03, by Shayma Aziz; pen on postcard. Source: shaymaaziz.blogspot.com Another extract from Youssef Rakha’s باولو [Paulo], recently...
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“Egypt before the Revolution”: Per Munther’s Leica
Cairo, 15 January 1850 […] Here we are then, in Egypt, the land of the Pharoahs, the land of the Ptolemies, the kingdom of Cleopatra (as they say in the grand style). Here we are, and here we abide,...
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Two Extracts from “Paulo” (The Crocodiles II), Translated by Robin Moger
A Kid Came to Me . A kid they marked up down at the Qasr Al Nil police station came to complain to me. (This was what was going on back then, with the April 6th Youth Movement and Kifaya and all of...
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RT @sultans_seal: Tweets through a glass pane
@Sultans_Seal If not being allowed to have strong opinions is not #censorship I’m not sure what is Western outrage at #Egypt‘s treatment of #MB continues to shock and awe me. Where do you get off,...
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Always a Place for the Still Frame: David Degner on Practice, Vision, and the...
David Degner is a Cairo-based freelance photographer represented by Getty Reportage and the co-editor of the Egyptian photo story magazine, Panorama by Mada Masr . . In an age when video journalism is...
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A Kind of Linguistic Caliphate: In Conversation with Hilary Plum
A CONVERSATION WITH YOUSSEF RAKHA 6 Mar 2015 by Hilary Plum I first learned of Youssef Rakha’s work in June 2011, when Anton Shammas wrote me with an unprecedentedly urgent recommendation. I was an...
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My Unwritten Spoof
I had planned to write a spoof. I was to be a committed Islamist reviewing the first two years after 30 June. I would extoll the virtues of Egypt under the Muslim Brotherhood. I would glorify their...
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Robert Neuwirth: The Third Way
Originally posted on Grand Hotel Abyss From “The Silver Box”, 2014. By Youssef Rakha Nothing’s truer than fiction, and the crazier the fiction, the closer to truth it sometimes is. The Book of the...
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Joe Linker: Notes on Youssef Rakha’s “The Crocodiles”
Originally Posted on June 30, 2015 on The Coming of the Toads Instead of page numbers, “The Crocodiles,” a novel by the Egyptian writer Youssef Rakha, is marked by 405 numbered, block paragraphs, the...
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