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I will not be able to do justice to the life of Hanaa Abdelfattah by writing here, for I only…

The following are segments from a longer poem — “Moons and Donkeys" — which I wrote after I spent a…

In the second part of our review of the Institut d’Egypte, Egypt Independent is focusing on the restoration of its…

Almost a year after it was set ablaze during clashes nearby, the Institut d’Egypte has reopened its doors boasting the…

Out of all the work that went into making PhotoCairo 5, by far the hardest thing for me was writing…

Since their formation in 2005, the Egyptian ultras have been called everything from “thugs” to “soccer hooligans.” They have been…

Love is a subject that has animated great poetry, novels and memoirs for a thousand years and more. Hate has…

  Ezz wanders around train carriages selling sleazy love stories; he couldn’t get a job after graduating from university. Ezzat…

“Of the martyrs of the revolution we lost before we even thought of a revolution,” wrote a tweep on her…

Security services seized on Thursday stolen artifacts in Cairo, Giza and Sharqiya. 

Four people are suspected of attempting to sell…