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Khaled Fahmy

ARTICLES BY Khaled Fahmy

  • Quick Thoughts: Khaled Fahmy on the COVID-19 Pandemic in Egypt

    Quick Thoughts: Khaled Fahmy on the COVID-19 Pandemic in Egypt

    Neither the Arab world nor Africa have figured prominently in reporting about the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite serious challenges and what are in many cases under-funded and poorly staffed health systems, these regions have—despite suggestions of incomplete reporting—generally avoided the horrific..

  • Ministry of Culture or Ministry of Intellectuals?

    Ministry of Culture or Ministry of Intellectuals?

    Since the new minister of culture, Alaa Abdel-Aziz, took up his post, conversations about the attitude he has adopted to prove himself have not ceased within Egypt`s cultural scene.

    The minister commenced his work in the ministry with a series of decisions to sack leading ministry figures,..

  • Islamists and Transitional Justice

    Islamists and Transitional Justice

    Suddenly, and in the same week, three of the largest Islamist movements started talking about transitional justice, demanding its implementation at once. Spokesman for the Salfist front, Hisham Kamal, asserted, "Mubarak should have been tried for all his crimes from the

  • The Tragedy of Books in Egypt

    The Tragedy of Books in Egypt

    Looking at Egypt, historian Khaled Fahmy affords a harrowing insight into the status of that most indispensable of commodities: the book.

    In recent weeks I encountered two incidents that made me feel extremely sorrowful about the situation of books, reading, and indeed culture, in E..