The joy cries filled the air – across Egypt the joy cries filled the air. For two weeks we'd chanted: "Come on Egypt, One more push/Freedom will be born tonight." And tonight this has come true. We ...

As reports emerge that former Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak could be released this week, we speak to the acclaimed Egyptian writer Ahdaf Soueif. A prominent backer of the 2011 Tahrir Square, Soueif ...

Joining us from Cairo’s Tahrir Square, Egyptian writer and activist Ahdaf Soueif says the refusal by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood to run an inclusive government has ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is the author of ‘Mezzaterra: Fragments from the Common Ground’ It is not seemly, in the face of ...

London-based author Ahdaf Soueif, praised as an "Egyptian George Eliot," describes the impact of Middle-Eastern and global history on her narratives. She examines the ways writing in English reflects ...

I knew something was wrong when I woke up to the sound of car horns. It's been so quiet and peaceful the last few days we've even started seeing the bats once again flitting in and out of the fruit ...

Ahdaf Soueif is a pillar of Cairo. Coming from a family of activists (she has a nephew in jail for allegedly encouraging a demonstration, a sister whom, after her son was faced with a court marshal, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. For 20 years I have shied away from writing about Cairo. It hurt too much. But the city was there, looking over my ...

The British Museum is one of the world’s few encyclopaedic museums: it tells the story of how civilisation was built; it boasts seven million visitors a year and is committed to free entry; it holds a ...