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Elizabeth Loudon’s debut novel, A Stranger in Baghdad, longlisted for the Bridport Novel Award, is published by Hoopoe (May
Hoopoe sat down with Sherif Meleka, author of Suleiman’s Ring, (Hoopoe, March 2023), to find out more about what drove him to
Shahira Yacout is a senior Arabic language instructor and Arabic Language Courses (ALNG) unit director in the Department of Arabic
Xenia Nikolskaya, author of Dust: Egypt’s Forgotten Architecture, Revised and Expanded Edition (AUC Press, 2022), will be in conversation with
Wednesday, February 15 7:00PM Cairo Time | 5:00PM London Time | 1:00PM New York Time Zoom Event and Facebook Live
Wednesday 15 March 2023, at 7:00pm Cairo time, Virtual Event Register here for the Zoom discussion Mariam F. Ayad, editor
Mahmoud Al-Ashiri is professor in Arabic at Georgetown University Qatar and a specialist in Arabic language acquisition and literary criticism.
Maha A. Ghalwash is associate professor of Middle East history and politics at the British University in Egypt. Her research
Sherif Meleka was born in 1958 into a Coptic Christian family in Alexandria, Egypt. A trained medical doctor, he emigrated
Melissa Gatter is a lecturer in International Development at the University of Sussex, researching forced migration, aid, and time in
Brian Wright is a research fellow at the American Research Center in Cairo, Egypt. His research focuses on the transformation
Alexander E. Elinson is associate professor of Arabic and head of the Arabic program at Hunter College of the City
Khadija Marouazi is a professor of literature at Ibn Tofaïl University in Kenitra, Morocco, and a human rights activist. She
Ahmed Taibaoui is a professor at the Faculty of Economics, Business, and Management Sciences at the University of Bouira in
The Cairo Writers Lab is an independent collective of writers based at The American University in Cairo.
Dina Amin is director of the theater program and associate professor of theater at The American University in Cairo. She