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Remembering the Egyptian Novelist Sonallah Ibrahim: “Taking a Scalpel to the Communist Dream”
When I first met Sonallah Ibrahim (August 3, 1937–August 13, 2025) in 2016—the Egyptian novelist with his shock…
Iron Bars: A Must
Karim assured her that the man was certain the address was correct. He didn’t believe their apartment…
The Issue of the Light Well
It was one of the children who threw the banana, the tangerine peels, or the seed shells…
A Precious Catch & Others
A Precious Catch In the stretch of my life I only caught a solitary sardine,From a little countryside…
A Conversation with Gretchen McCullough
About writing Confessions of a Knight Errant: Drifters, Thieves and Ali Baba’s Treasure What I love about Confessions…
Book Review: Confessions of a Knight Errant
Drifters, Thieves and Ali Baba’s Treasure This is not my first encounter with the two main characters of…
Excerpt of “Confessions of a Knight Errant”
from Chapter 11: Fallout The phone rang. “Clover Flower Girls’ Camp. How can I help you?” I…
Life in Cairo
Throw Away the Script This past summer when I was getting ready to return to Cairo, my parents’…