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Practical Advice: Ganzeer
A conversation with the graffiti artist Ganzeer.
Bidoun
Thirty-Three Questions
What has schizophrenia to do with serious art?
Doa Aly
“Who Said He Was Not Tortured?”: The Medical Examiner
On three consecutive nights at the end of April, TV journalist Yousry Fouda’s show
Akher Kalam
(Last Words) considered the case of Dr.
Bidoun
Muslim Bro 2.0: Abdel-Moneim Abou El Fotouh
This past May, Abdel-Moneim Abou El Fotouh announced that he would run for president of Egypt.
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Denial TV: Shahira Amin
Shahira Amin was a senior correspondent and the deputy head for the state-owned Nile TV who resigned on February 3, following the network’s refusal to provide coverage of the revolution that was under way.
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No More Revolutions: Mohamed Hamdy Mustafa
The artist Ayman Ramadan listens to Mohamed Hamdy Mustafa, a seller of spare car parts.
Ayman Ramadan
An Activist Encounters Her File: Esraa Abdel Fattah
During the first week of March, some weeks after the fall of the House of Mubarak, hundreds of protesters stormed state security offices across the country in an inspired show of citizen force.
Yasmine El Rashidi
All Content is Useful: Ramy Raoof
A conversation with human rights activist Ramy Raoof, who set up a multimedia tent in Tahrir Square in late January, where people could share their video footage, photos, and testimonies from the revolution.
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Proof That it Happened: Magdi Mostafa
Magdi Mostafa is an artist who works with sound and visuals.
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Stay Away From My Afterlife!: Ahmed Mohammed
A walk through the Egyptian Museum in Cairo with licensed tour guide Ahmed Mohammed, at the rate of 150 Egyptian pounds per hour.
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The Particular Believer: Nawal El Saadawi
A conversation with Nawal El Saadawi, activist, feminist, writer, doctor.
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The New Gornalism: Sanaa Seif and Hanin Tarek
A conversation with Sanaa Seif and Hanin Tarek, two teenage girls who started a newspaper called
Gornal
in Tahrir Square during the revolution.
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The Colors of Infamy
Born in Cairo in 1913, Albert Cossery wrote eight novels in sixty years, all of which celebrate his philosophy of laziness and boast a cast of hedonists, vagrants, anarchists, and thieves.
Albert Cossery
The Family That Revolts Together: The Seif Family
In the storied lexicon of Egyptian dynasties, the curly-haired Seifs of Cairo will go down in history.
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Sixty-Four Antiquities Stolen from the Egyptian Museum on January 28
ANTIQUITIES THAT HAVE BEEN RECOVERED
Objects found in a bag in the metro station by a passerby
1: Gilded wooden statue of Tutankhamun standing in a boat throwing a harpoon.
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Claw Your Hands and Say Yeah
Like plenty who found themselves outside of Egypt on #Jan25, I spent the first few days of the revolution contributing to the hysterical echo chamber on Facebook and Twitter.
Sophia Al-Maria
Keeping Up with the Khordadian: The Life and Times of the King of Iranian Dance
Since the 1980s, Khordadian has built up a dance and exercise and dance-as-exercise career that has made him the most famous Iranian mail-order entertainer on earth, beloved for his camp renditions of everything from Iranian folk dance to Arabian belly dance to American jazzercise.
Negar Azimi
The Work of Sport in the Age of International Acquisition: How Arabized Kenyan runners have brought glory to the Emirates and undermined the patriotic conceit of the international-sports economy
Hardly anyone took notice when Cherono switched his citizenship and name in exchange for a lifetime monthly salary of $1,000 and the standard complement of elite trainers and cutting-edge facilities.
Alexander Provan
Beyond the Rally of the Dolls: A conversation with Nada Zeidan
Drive along the corniche in Doha tonight and you’ll see the laser lights and heart-shaped fireworks of victory.
Sophia Al-Maria
Hello Gorgeous: The glory and the loneliness of Omar Sharif, Egypt’s top bridge player
Omar Sharif represented Egypt in the 1964 Olympics for the game of contract bridge, according to one of the more benign rumors circulating about him on the internet.
Curtis Brown
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