“Like any other bar in any city on earth, nothing was overwhelming…” Traveling through the American Midwest six years later, Egyptian writer Hamdy El-Gazzar finds a familiar bar full of characters, life, and creative inspiration.
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Egyptian writer and Sampsonia Way columnist Hamdy El-Gazzar shares his notes from a recent stay at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh earlier this month. In this account, he stumbles upon the fun-filled art project Randyland, which is just around the corner from COAP’s writer residences.
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A look at the case of Karem Saber, a writer and peasants’ rights activist appealing a five-year prison sentence for his short story collection Where is God? which has drawn the support of international human rights organizations.
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Egyptian writer and columnist Hamdy El-Gazzar talks about writing a novel, specifically his novel Secret Pleasures, as a way to discus what is “happening and happened in Egypt since the Kefaya movement appeared in 2004.”
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A re-reading of Islamic theorist and poet Sayyid Qutb’s Milestones inspires this childhood memoir from Hamdy El-Gazzar: Sparring with words, a teacher, and extremism.
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Part Three of a series on the beauty and death Egypt now faces. “I was a burden lying up on the board, and they were walking around the arena with my legs and feet.”
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In this column, Hamdy el-Gazzar writes part II of a series on the beauty and death that Egypt now faces.
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