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Tahrir Plays: Beyond Orientalist Depictions of Arab Theater
The actress Tina Benko (Midsummer Night’s Dream, Desdemona, The Avengers) strides onto the stage. Its lights are dimmed,…
Poems
Metamorphoses Each of them was transformed into an animal That one turned into a dog and became loyal…
Heavier Than Radwa: An Excerpt
An excerpt from Heavier The Radwa (2014) From Chapter Sixteen: In the Time of Revolution, 197–198 We must…
Tribute to Radwa Ashour
Radwa Ashour was not just a writer. Like the powerful female characters in her books, she…
Get Adapted
With Egypt’s reigning queen of scriptwriting: Mariam Na‘oum Daring, determined, and ambitious, Egyptian scriptwriter Mariam Na‘oum’s string of…
The Traffic
Before coming to Egypt, I had often heard the traffic in Cairo described as “chaos” without ever really…
Two Poems
School Fish and People fish travel in schools together families extend into forever names are passed on even…
Bint al-‘Araq (Daughter of Iraq)
I can always tell you two apart by the way you walk. Uday, straight as an arrow, that…
Goodreads Book Club
When I was asked to write about our Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Goodreads group for Rowayat,…