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This article is part of a series examining free expression and information access in civic spaces across six language communities in the MENA region. Servants, doormen, wardrobe assistants, and ...

AN important philological discovery is announced from Berlin. Profs. Karl Schmidt and H. Schafer, who are well known for their work in connection with Coptic literature and. Nubian antiquities ...

The lush farmland where Bakri Gaffar played as a boy, scaling palm trees and fishing the Nile, now lies deep underwater. Gaffar, 75, still remembers every contour of his village, which the Egyptian ...

FROM a boat on the reservoir between Egypt’s high and low dams in Aswan, a local Nubian man called Haj Omar points to where the ancient temple of Philae used to be. After the low dam was completed in ...

TO OUTSIDE observers a decree issued by Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi in November 2014 may have seemed benign. With the stroke of his pen, Egypt’s president designated a stretch of mostly uninhabited land in ...