“Magdi Yacoub is clearly an extraordinary man. He did things his way.”
September 12, 2023
Q&A with Simon Pearson and Fiona Gorman, authors of “A Surgeon and a Maverick: The Life and Pioneering Work of Magdi Yacoub”
Category: Interviews
A family drama set in Baghdad
April 19, 2023
Elizabeth Loudon’s debut novel, A Stranger in Baghdad, longlisted for the Bridport Novel Award, is published by Hoopoe (May 2023). “A haunting, beautifully written book about twentieth century Baghdad and the… READ MORE
An epic novel with a magic ring
April 2, 2023
Hoopoe sat down with Sherif Meleka, author of Suleiman’s Ring, (Hoopoe, March 2023), to find out more about what drove him to write about an enchanted ring which brings good fortune to… READ MORE
“Dust is the poetic metaphor”—Xenia Nikolskaya
December 9, 2022
Xenia Nikolskaya is an award-winning Russian-Swedish photographer currently based in Cairo. She is the author of The House My Grandfather Built, which won the 2021 Swedish Photobook Award. Her book Dust:… READ MORE
Faces from another time
December 5, 2022
Sherif Boraie is an editor and publisher based in Cairo. He founded his imprint, Zeitouna, in 1988, under which he has published forty highly illustrated books on Egyptian history, from the… READ MORE
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“I would have done everything [Howard] Carter did that day”
October 19, 2022
In this short Q&A, we ask Aidan Dodson about the discovery of the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty pharaoh Tutankhamun, by the British archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter, on… READ MORE
“There were so many errors and misconceptions concerning the Rosetta Stone”—Jonathan Downs
June 25, 2022
The 1799 discovery of the Rosetta Stone, the large, flat, dark stele found by a French officer in the small port of Rosetta during Napoleon Bonaparte’s military expedition to Egypt,… READ MORE
Participating in Iowa’s International Writing Program
June 16, 2022
This year, Egyptian novelist, literary editor, and Hoopoe author Yasser Abdel Hafez participated in the special Spring Residency of University of Iowa’s International Writing Program (IWP), the oldest and largest… READ MORE
