TOPIC memory
features
detox • 43 min read
Detox | What was life like before 2011?
Something was bubbling right under the surface, threatening to overflow.
25 January 2020
literature • 30 min read
‘Trying hard to get out of my skin’: A conversation on Waguih Ghali’s multiple selves
Sara Elkamel | On Waguih Ghali's birthday, a talk with Zainab Magdy about the writer and his life
25 February 2019
cinema • 7 min read
Forgiveness: On difficult memory
Lina Attalah | I became curious about Udi Aloni’s feature film Forgiveness (2006) after I read his article for Mondoweiss
11 August 2014
Ali Shaath • 10 min read
Remembering Ali Shaath
Lina Attalah, Maysara Abdulhaq, Sherene Seikaly and Sherene Seikaly | In 1994, Ali Shaath and three of his colleagues, Sa’id al-Qidra, Mustafa Harara, and Majd al-Khalidi
17 December 2013
Maspero • 9 min read
Why is Maspero different?
Sarah Carr | The months of 2011 are remembered less by their names than acts of violence — clashes of varying intensity
9 October 2013
 
Panorama
 
archive
Shelves of time
Amina Kadous
 
 
More Photo Stories
 
 
Opinion
Omar Robert Hamilton
The City Always Wins
An excerpt from Omar Robert Hamilton's book
3 August 2017
Tarek Ghanem
History hurts, disturbs, inspires, revives
Some thoughts on histories from below and state narratives.
20 November 2016
Ian Alan Paul
The mattering of Egyptian life
On the morning of January 24, 2015, a large hole sat in the middle of Midan Tahrir. The memorial to security
3 February 2015
 
More Op-eds
 
 
News
archives • 4 min read
Maspero2011: Archiving the memory of the Coptic protest’s violent dispersal
8 October 2015
2011 Mohamed Mahmoud clashes • 3 min read
Streets to be named after martyrs of Jan 25 and following events
10 February 2014
Ahmed Fouad Negm • 4 min read
Streets and schools to be renamed after police ‘martyrs’
22 January 2014
Martyrs • 3 min read
Beblawi opens new Tahrir monument
18 November 2013
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