Author: Bab Masr
The rhythmic beauty, economic hardship, and generational legacy of Egypt’s vanishing handmade crate industry. By Helmy Yassin
The hallowed silence of Wadi El Natrun’s Monastery of Saint Bishoy, a spiritual fortress of Egyptian monasticism housing ancient relics, the papal legacy of Pope Shenouda III, and centuries of Coptic architectural heritage. By Mahmoud Dowair
A controversy erupts in Aswan as new concrete structures at the Temple of Kalabsha spark outcry over visual heritage. Experts and officials clash over whether these modern security additions preserve site functionality or desecrate the hallowed aesthetic of Egypt’s historic Nubian panorama. By Wafaa Amin
Damanhur Opera House, an architectural masterpiece blending Italian elegance with Islamic heritage, now restored as Egypt’s radiant cultural beacon. By Mahmoud Dowair
The haunting beauty of Port Said’s foreign cemeteries, where the echoes of Commonwealth soldiers and European elite linger. A lyrical journey through “cities of the silent” that reveals the forgotten cosmopolitan heart of Egypt’s canal history. By Osama Kamal
Luxor’s traditional cobblers struggle to preserve the ancient craft of handmade leatherwork against the rising tide of modern fashion and mass production. By Amany Khairy
Saving the Damanhour Library’s 600-year-old manuscripts and restoring Egypt’s neglected cultural heritage from decay. By Mahmoud Dowair
Port Said’s culinary soul, tracing the vanishing heritage of Um al-Khulul through the lens of traditional fishermen, folk art, and the rhythmic melodies of the Simsimiyya. By Osama Kamal
Remembering Hani Shukrallah (1950–2019): the Egyptian journalist, leftist thinker, and poet of the impossible. Hani Shukrallah would often repeat Salah Jahin’s famous line: “I, who am seduced by the impossible.” This was not merely a verse he admired; it was an expression of his life and an embodiment of his constant infatuation with the impossible. Such was the life of Hani Shukrallah (1950–2019): an endless wager on adventure and defiance. Though he left us eight years ago on this day, the wound of his absence has not aged among those who loved him and his friends, nor even among those who only…
Amira Howeidy remembers her editor Hani Shukrallah: the man who saw her before she saw herself and transformed Al-Ahram Weekly into a golden era of Egyptian journalism. I don’t remember my first meeting with Hani Shukrallah, my boss during the more than twelve years we worked together at Al-Ahram Weekly. I search my memory, but it is dark. There is no scene of meeting him, no first impressions. It is as if Hani’s impact on my development as a journalist was something I recognized as a given, like the great certainties we grow up with before we fully understand them.…