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From The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition, a fourteenth-century encyclopedia by Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri, an Egyptian scholar. The book was published this month by Penguin Classics. Translated from…

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by Andrea and Magda,

Con Voyage

by Wolfgang Bauer, Sarah Pybus,

From Crossing the Sea, by Wolfgang Bauer. In 2014, Bauer, a German journalist for Die Zeit, traveled undercover with Syrian refugees on a boat headed from Egypt to Greece. His…

Mad Magazines

by Jonathan Guyer,

Underground comics come to Egypt

Introducing the December 2014 Issue

by Ellen Rosenbush,

Sarah Topol follows the trade routes used by arms smugglers, Eric Foner explores the hidden history of the Underground Railroad, Karl Ove Knausgaard recounts a humiliating episode from grade school, and more

Project Mayhem

by Emad Mekay,

How the State Department helped incite the 9/11/12 riots

Return of the Strongman

by Negar Azimi,

How did Egypt revert to dictatorship?

The Man Who Stole the Nile

by Frederick Kaufman,

An Ethiopian billionaire’s outrageous land grab

Now You Sisi

by Ahmed Ould Meiloud,

From a video of senior Egyptian army officers at a meeting held by General Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi, leaked last October by the Islamist website Rassd News Network; the meeting is thought…

Laundry and Candidates, Cairo, November 2011

by Rebecca Bird,

Egypt

At Last

Pro Tips

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Con Voyage

Mad Magazines

Introducing the December 2014 Issue

Project Mayhem

Return of the Strongman

The Man Who Stole the Nile

Now You Sisi

Laundry and Candidates, Cairo, November 2011

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At Last

Pro Tips

(Untitled)

Con Voyage

Mad Magazines

Introducing the December 2014 Issue

Project Mayhem

Return of the Strongman

The Man Who Stole the Nile

Now You Sisi

Laundry and Candidates, Cairo, November 2011

September 2013

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