Rock 'n' Roll All Night... A look at recent inductees into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. PLUS: An exclusive interview with the Sex Pistols' Glen Matlock
Those Who Remain An oral history of Egypt’s Jewish minority as told by the head of the Jewish Community of Cairo, Egyptians who onced lived in the capital’s Haret El-Yehud (Jewish Quarter) and two men who converted to Islam at the time of the revolution. CARMEN WEINSTEIN IS blessed with an ageless grace. Few people look as comfortable in their own skin as she does sitting in her garden, dressed in a long embroidered galabeyya.
More than 200 years after they arrive in Egypt with Nelsons’s fleet, 28 men, one woman and a child are finally given funeral rites at an Alexandria military cemetery.
ON A STEAMY Monday afternoon late last month, the lane adjoining the British and Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery in Chatby, Alexandria, was the scene
The new president of the Union of Egyptian Writers speaks out on pension reform (Naguib Mahfouz’s monthly stipend: LE70 a month) and his syndicate’s new activism.
THE UNION OF EGYPTIAN Writers (Ittihad Kuttab Misr) has been suffering from neglect for so many years that its members have lost any sense of hope in
Moufida Helmi Story of a Pioneer Investigative Journalist ByRania Al Malky Read more
Fact or Fiction Alaa El-Aswany thought he had it made when his Omaret Yacoubian rocketed to the top of the Arab world’s bestseller list. But as a star-studded cast wrapped up the film adaptation of the dentist-turned-novelist’s book last month, residents of the real-life building in which the story is set filed libel suits against the author and production company, saying Omaret Yacoubian is a thinly veiled roman à clef. Publisher, producer, screenwriter and author all deny the charges.Who’s right? That’s the multi-million-pound question By Read more
Out of Focus Egypt was once a top center for astronomical research, but a lack of funding has crippled the nation’s premier research facility in Qattameya. Can anything be done to save the facility before scientists descend on Egypt in 2006 to study a total eclipse of the sun? By Rania Al Malky Read more
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