I had a compelling desire to write this review after seeing the movies just mentioned in the title. Not just because both of them are critically…
Author: Sherine ElBanhawy
Sherine ElBanhawy
A blogger, freelance writer, and full time mother/wife. She is committed to community service and feels it enriches ones life. She loves to travel, ride bikes, and read.
With everyone talking about Banned Books Week days even after it’s over, I’ve decided to educate Egyptians who don’t know what it is. Today’s banned books…
To Egypt and to the world today, she’s the 2016 Winner of the 8th Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition and the first Egyptian/Arab Soprano to…
In this day and age, there is so much literature out there and the accessibility that technology provides for books has made our choices even wider…
In celebration of International Women’s Day, it seemed appropriate to review May We Be Forgiven by AM Homes, which won The Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction…
In the midst of all the chaos of Cairo, its traffic, pollution and depressing headlines, I find myself smiling ear to ear while paying the one…
Although I am a feminist and believe wholeheartedly in female empowerment and equalizing gender opportunities, I am simply unconvinced by Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In philosophy and…
When thinking about books and what I want to read next, I often find myself overwhelmed with the choices: best-selling, award-winning, classics, recommendations from friends. Then…
Liane Moriarty’s The Huband’s Secret (July 2013 Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam) starts off with the perfect quotation by Alexander Pope: “To err is human; to forgive, divine.”…
The last two years have been exhausting for Nadia Wassef, co-founder of Egypt’s Diwan Bookstores. Running Diwan was no longer about books, writers, and shops. It…
