Author Hamdy El-Gazzar constructs a narrative based around two key players in the Egyptian Revolution: the “Facebook girl”, who rallied people to gather in Tahrir Square”, and a forgotten poet who re-discovers poetry after decades of silence.
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Author Hamdy El-Gazzar constructs a narrative based around two key players in the Egyptian Revolution: the “Facebook girl”, who rallied people to gather in Tahrir Square”, and a forgotten poet who re-discovers poetry after decades of silence.
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In this week’s From Egypt, a man crippled from his involvement in the Egyptian revolution struggles to walk through Tahrir Square.
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In this week’s From Egypt, a man crippled from his involvement in the Egyptian revolution struggles to walk through Tahrir Square.
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In this exclusive interview, Pittsburgh writer Chuck Kinder talks about the Pittsburgh literary scene, his own writing process, and other Pittsburgh writers.
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Read an excerpt from The Polish Boxer, Eduardo Halfon’s first novel to be published in English. The novel’s title comes from a story told by the narrator’s grandfather, who says he was saved in Auschwitz by a Polish boxer.
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In this week’s From Egypt Hamdy El-Gazzar imagines a conversation between an Egyptian Salafi and an Egyptian secularist about the future of their country and the role of Islam in it.
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In this week’s From Egypt Hamdy El-Gazzar reflects on childhood memories of Ramadan with a short story about the tin lanterns he loved.
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In this week’s From Egypt writer Hamdy El-Gazzar delves into the mind of the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammed Badie.
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In this interview, Israel Centeno sits down with Sampsonia Way to talk about his new book Bamboo City (a hybrid text that moves smoothly between poetry and fiction), the translation process, and upcoming publications.
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