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Nael El Toukhy
Nael El Toukhy is a novelist and translator from Hebrew to Arabic.
Opinion
Nael El Toukhy
We just feel it: On Jerusalem and the power of ideology
"We feel Jerusalem is our capital, so it is. Other people and complex narratives do not exist."
Nael El Toukhy
So what do I do if I meet an Israeli abroad?
Nael El Toukhy on how decades of no debate about normalization led to the Olympic hand-shaking debacle.
Nael El Toukhy
Eye to eye: Palestinian-Mizrahi dialogue
In the video for his first song in Hebrew, To be an Arab, released last summer, Palestinian singer Jowan
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Video: How can we fit the world into folders?
Lara El Gibaly, Nael El Toukhy and Rowan El Shimi
| This Alexandrian bookseller has independently created a massive scholarly archive
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1st lesson learned from Ahmed Naji’s jailing: Individuality
Nael El Toukhy
| Many hated Naji because individuality is thorny, lonely and uncomfortable, even for those claiming to
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