Authors

Jack Shenker

 

Jack Shenker is a writer based in London and Cairo, whose reporting has spanned the globe. Formerly Egypt correspondent for The Guardian, his coverage of the Egyptian revolution received multiple prizes. In 2012, his investigation into the deaths of African migrants in the Mediterranean was named news story of the year at the prestigious One World media awards. The Egyptians, published by Allen Lane / Penguin in the UK and The New Press in the US, is his first book - www.jackshenker.net

ARTICLES BY Jack Shenker

  • The Egyptians: A Radical History of Egypt’s Unfinished Revolution - Afterword

    The Egyptians: A Radical History of Egypt’s Unfinished Revolution - Afterword

    In late February 2016, President Sisi strode up to the podium at Cairo’s El Galaa theatre, looked into the waiting television cameras, and addressed the nation. “Don`t listen to anyone but me,” he declared. “I am dead serious. Be careful, no one should abuse my patience and good manners to bring..

  • Beyond The Voice of Battle

    Beyond The Voice of Battle

    No matter how many times you witness it, the transformation is still a dizzying one. Kiosks that once vended chocolate and cigarettes, deployed as a gunman’s shield. Shop window shutters framing sugar-sopped cakes or risqué clothes mannequins, now the roughage of a street barricade and..