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This weekend the 2014 Palestinian Festival of Literature (May 31 – June 5) begins in Ramallah and events continue throughout the week in six...

On Wednesday, May 21, former President Hosni Mubarak was convicted of embezzling millions of dollars from public funds for his and his family’s private use....

This week Cairo Review published an interview with Syrian poet Ali Ahmed Said Esber, known by his pen name Adunis. Arguably the greatest Arab poet of the...

Unending comparisons of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to Gamal Abdel Nasser largely conclude that the similarities between the men go no further than their...

Like much literature and music from Palestine, contemporary art grapples with the responsibility of resistance while simultaneously seeking to not be defined...

In her latest exhibition, Menace of Origins, Jumana Manna examines cultures of masculinity in her hometown East Jerusalem through a series of sculptures which...

In a shocking ruling, 529 Muslim Brotherhood supporters were sentenced to death in an Minya court on Monday. To understand the massive death sentence in...

Last week the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) released a report detailing the corruption of Egyptian natural gas export contracts and the...

Growing lettuce at Egyptian Hydrofarms (Photo: Egyptian Hydrofarms) Writing for the Middle East Institute, Lousie Sarant describes innovative efforts in...

As President and CEO of the Arab Contractors, Ibrahim Mehlab urges workers at the Heliopolis Company for Chemical Industries, a military production factory,...

The Yemen Peace Project organized the first International Yemeni Arts and Film Festival on January 25 and 26 in New York. The festival featured a photography...

Ibrahim Abdel Meguid, whose Clouds Over Alexandria is one of 16 selected novels (Photo: al-akhbar.com) Last Tuesday, January 7, the International Prize...

Maha ElNabawi’s profile on Halim El-Dabh for Mada Masr this week is a terrific portrait of the first person to make and record electronic...

A new report last week presented by the European External Policy Advisors has stirred new interest in human trafficking taking place in Egypt’s Sinai...

Al Muqanaa (the Masked) (Photo: © Tarek Abu Esber and © Nour Festival) London’s Nour Festival of Arts is well underway, showcasing a variety of cultural...

In his essay on the Jesuit-run Baghdad College, “The American Age,” Anthony Shadid reflected on a time when America’s role in the region had not yet...

Moving far outside the region, Ellis Goldberg’s latest post on his blog nisralnasr, “A Tale of Two Coups,” compares the current Egyptian situation to...

The recent detention of labor lawyer and Revolutionary Socialist leader Haitham Mohamedein is a reminder of the other, less-publicized war the Egyptian...

Issandr El Amrani’s article on The Arabist is a dispiriting yet lucid assessment of the general situation in Egypt. Amrani claims that not only do the...

This week in Egypt, activists opposing both General Sisi and the Muslim Brotherhood gathered to protest in Sphinx Square in Mohandiseen. Upset with the...

Mustafa Abu Ali at the Carthage film festival in 1980 (Photo: the Guardian) Next week marks four years since the passing of pioneer Palestinian filmmaker...

Confused by what’s happening in Egypt? The following suggested articles and links may not clear anything up, but they definitely present important...