In this week’s From Egypt Hamdy El-Gazzar imagines a conversation between an Egyptian Salafi and an Egyptian secularist about the future of their country and the role of Islam in it.
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In this week’s From Egypt Hamdy El-Gazzar profiles his adopted grandfather, Naguib Mahfouz, and imagines his reaction to Egypt’s current situation.
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In this week’s From Egypt Hamdy El-Gazzar profiles his adopted grandfather, Noble Prize winning author Naguib Mahfouz, and imagines his reaction to Egypt’s current situation.
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[Arabic] Egyptian writer Hamdy El-Gazzar profiles Ali Mabrouk, a renowned professor of Islamic Philosophy and author of The Arabs’ Revolution, and Inaugurative Address, in which he details how Egypt can move from being a power-hungry nation to one “truth.”
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Egyptian writer Hamdy El-Gazzar profiles Ali Mabrouk, a renowned professor of Islamic Philosophy and author of The Arabs’ Revolution, and Inaugurative Address, in which he details how Egypt can move from being a power-hungry nation to one “truth.”
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Following Egypt’s revolution, many forces have been working towards a new constitution for the country. Hamdy El-Gazzar highlights a group of intellectuals and artists who have created a “Cultural Constitution” to preserve intellectual freedom.
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In this week’s From Egypt column, author Hamdy El-Gazzar writes an open letter to his friend Khalid Khalifa, a Syrian novelist who recently returned to war-torn Syria. Khalifa has issued calls to writers and the international community to “Rescue my people.”
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