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Hani Shukrallah

Hani Shukrallah

Cairo the city vanquished

Cairo, Al-Qahira, is literally The Vanquisher, or the vanquishing city. Max Rodenbook, in the title of his delightful history of the Egyptian capital, rendered it, “Cairo: City Victorious”. And for a......

 Spitting image The Brotherhood and I A close encounter of the twitter kind

This column has been absent for two weeks. I'd been on a longish trip to a slice of heaven on earth, Ubud, Bali. The six-day Writers and Readers Festival, to which I'd been invited, stretched to 11......

 For a ruthless criticism of everything existing

Print Send I’m bored with the Brotherhood. They persist in repeating the same mistakes, the same grabbing, grasping offensives, and the same bungling, bungled retreats, they make promises in the......