Culture
Making the familiar strange
Yasmine Moataz Ahmed | The Valley of Walls, an exhibition curated by Farida Youssef and housed in the abandoned apartment of
Who’s Afraid of (a) Minor Detail?
Zeina G. Halabi | Adania Shibli and Specters of the Disaster on Literature and the Body
Video | The gift of mulberries
Mostafa Mostafa Mohamed | Mulberry season passes in the wink of an eye (and can be said to snatch hearts) each spring
Video | Our zoo, our botanical garden
Asmaa Gamal Elgafrie | Like many of greater Cairo’s residents and visitors from further away, Mada Masr decided to visit
Not to salute the parrot: Strolling through the sound of Egypt
Omar Refaat | Music is marking territory, but what sort of map is this?
A conversation with Shady Lewis Botros on the genealogy of literary refusal
The world is a very complicated place, and we cannot take puritanical or ethically perfect positions
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A possible love for homeland: A conversation with Oxana Timofeeva
Lina Attalah | "There is a moment of negativity in this movement: you think of homeland when you are not there"
How to love a homeland
Oxana Timofeeva | An excerpt from Oxana Timofeeva’s How to love a homeland.
 
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