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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 acclaimed, but because they're making movie lovers brave the cold and head towards the multiplexes. I am happy to see people expressing interest and enthusiasm for serious movies after years of…

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 are…

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…

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 and more diverse. To join the thousands of lists out there, to celebrate women writers and to embrace the wonderful #ReadingWomen2014 Twitter wave, I have put together a list of #ReadingWomen2014…

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 pound ticket…

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 argument. I had been so looking forward to reading the Facebook CEO's perspective on success and how to make it in corporate America. Unfortunately, not only did she…

When thinking about books and what I want to read next, I often find myself overwhelmed with the choices: best-selling, award-winning, classics,…

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…

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 was nothing but crisis management, stress and financial pressure. Almost burnt out from having managed to overcome the financial crisis and two Egyptian revolutions, Wassef has relocated…