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In Memory of Bouthayna Ahmed Helal
This lady I knew, Had always helped me through. She had her special way, Of making me want…
The Writing Clinic
Watering the Seedlings: Turning Ideas into Stories Idea seedling sparks our imagination and gets our creative engines running.…
Mythical Beasts of Cairo
The Resgerus by Nourhan Faisal Farid In our lovely, Ancient Egypt we have the Resgerus; the protector of…
Creative Writing
“The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.” – Louis D. Brandeis I especially like…
A Biography
Sleep deprivation is like being high. I know because I was high for a long time, then I…
Life in Cairo
Throw Away the Script This past summer when I was getting ready to return to Cairo, my parents’…
Poems by Gihan Omar
Translated from Arabic by Mandy McClure I Am Not a Whole Garden Like a flower I let the…
Interview with Gihan Omar: Little Words Saying So Much
I was asked to interview Gihan Omar, a young Egyptian poet. She insists she is not young anymore,…
Mongrels or Marvels: The Levantine Writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff
Eds. Deborah A. Starr and Sasson Somekh. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011. Born in Cairo in 1917,…