Personal experience leaves Youssef Rakha feeling old
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At the end of the decade, Youssef Rakha indulges his Arabic-literature ego
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@Sultans Seal wallows in his lack of democratic mettle
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Youssef Rakha explores some of the issues informing the highly anticipated 30 June anti-government protests
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At a recent family gathering, someone happened to mention the case of Albert Saber: the 25-year-old proponent of atheism who had been tried and convicted for online “defamation of religion”
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On the "civil" community's recent clashes with Islamists
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Distracted from political realities, Egyptians gather around their TV screens to watch Ramadan serials, but the view of society that the television projects back is a distorted one
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Mohab Nasr, Ya rabb, a'tina kutuban linaqra' (Please, God, give us books to read), Cairo: Al Ain, 2012
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Does the Islamists' catch phrase mean what it says?
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It's always great to be proactive - but is it really?
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Who's best - the Spare Tyre, the Retired Terrorist, George W., or Cigar Bey? Egypt's presidential candidates fail to inspire
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At about five am this morning (2 May),I woke up to news of people being murdered in and around the site of the Abbassiya (Ministry of Defence) sit-in (#MOF on Twitter, ongoing since late Friday, 27 April)
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In an unprecedented development, comedy superstar Adel Imam is facing a possible three-month prison sentence for alleged "contempt of religion" in several of his films.
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Pacing up and down the arena of cyber-politics, in search of the Islamist homunculus secretly ensconced in the minds of liberals who covet a role in history more than anything history might actually give
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On the first anniversary of the initial referendum on constitutional amendments, Youssef Rakha remembers his father
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Atrocious, appalling, unbelievably ugly, writes Youssef Rakha. But the political antics of Tawfik Okasha, owner and director of Al Fara'een satellite channel, has implications for Egyptian society
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The only eyes worth publishing for are those of the anonymous reader somewhere for whom the struggle to understand the world through words still has meaning
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The elections, like Tahrir, reflect the conflicting composition of Egyptian society and its reaction to social change
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Some time in February, the literary (and intellectual) Generation of the Nineties started coming up in intellectual conversations about the Arab Spring
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