Mahmoud El-Wardani's Articles

Soad Othman offers a fine-grained ethnography of the Bohra sect of Ismaili Shi'ism

In his new book, Dr. Hassanein Tawfiq Ibrahim asks whether the Islamic State organisation may continue in some form after its apparent defeat on the battlefield, highlighting the future of children born to IS members

Written between 1937 and 1938, Umm Kalthoum memoirs — never before collected in book form — offer a fascinating glimpse into the life of the Arab's world's most iconic singer in the 20th century

Nasser's novel, unfinished by his hand, depicted the events of 1807 when Britain decided to fill the vacuum in Egypt following the withdrawal of the defeated French Invasion troops

Biography in Exile focuses on Taher's self-imposed exile in Europe after the late President Anwar Sadat launched a repressive campaign against the Left in 1971