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  In the late summer of 2002, at a small office of the ground floor of what is today the…

I recently had the pleasure of getting a casual and insightful feng shui assessment of my home. “Feng” means wind…

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…