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It was not Amir Tag Elsir’s plan to write a novel within a novel. When he first sat down to…

Egypt vice regal Khedive Ismail met with Ali Mubarak Pasha in 1863 to develop a blueprint for Cairo’s future. He…

  Egyptian authorities recovered two pharaonic stone palettes from New Zealand, which arrived in Egypt on Wednesday, said Antiquities Minister…

 

  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…