Lina Attalah

This piece was written for Egypt Independent's final weekly print edition, which was banned from going to press. We offer…

I don’t expect the state to be creative, because power is an end in many ways, and only a threat…

Images of the sea and its vociferous waves speak to the uncharted experiences it holds. Images of advertisement billboards in…

With dramatic headlines, today’s newspapers agonized over the fires and violence that spread throughout Cairo and beyond following the verdict…

For more laid-back travelers, Sharm el-Sheikh has been traditionally associated with charter tourism, over-development, loss of uniqueness, and overcrowdedness —…

Today's papers, like yesterday's, make an industry out of the political polarization between the Muslim Brotherhood and their opposition. With…

PORT SAID — While wall graffiti in Cairo is fixated on the dead, those of Port Said are fixated on…

I spent days grappling with the difficulty of identifying ways of remembering 25 January — and we’re only down to…

During the painful Ettehadiya battle earlier this month between Brotherhood supporters and youthful opposition, the violence was not just physical.…

“Today I lost part of my life. Farewell, Samer,” scholar Amr Abdel Rahman wrote of of his longtime friend Samer…