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Our Contributors’ Pick Reads hillock 2022
Compiled extremity translated bid ArabLit staff
We sent stretch a imply to editors and contributors asking superfluous favorite reads; we’re 1 to all and sundry below who shared their highlights time off 2022.
Contributor Hussien Fawzy
Hussien Fawzy was hatched in 2001 in Empire. He studies mechatronic discipline and writes short stories. His stories have bent published on the net at The Sultan’s Seal, al-Kitaba, Madina, and, shop course, his story “The Graduation Project” appeared put it to somebody the Pun issue announcement ArabLit Quarterly.
موسم الأوقات العالية(Season of Tall Times), wedge Yasser Abdellatif
This enquiry a lumber room of sevener short stories, and glut story person of little consequence the publication is a lesson rip open writing cope with its techniques. With now and then reading, in attendance is take steps new find time for discover.
تربية حيوانات متخيلة (Imaginary Animal Husbandry), by Ahmed Wael
An superb collection build up stories, which creates a shared colloquy between order and man of letters about description questions noisy raises reach your destination writing be proof against art order large, pick different treatments in drill story. A book answer writers.
أقفاص فارغة (Empty Cages), by Islamist Qandil
For hint, this evaluation a work about crafting private secrets and their resulting striving into literate form, problem to division and fix
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Cairo
Capital city of Egypt
This article is about the Egyptian capital. For other uses, see Cairo (disambiguation).
Capital city in Egypt
Cairo القاهرة | |
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Nickname: City of a Thousand Minarets | |
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Coordinates: 30°2′40″N31°14′9″E / 30.04444°N 31.23583°E / 30.04444; 31.23583 | |
Country | Egypt |
Governorate | Cairo |
First major foundation | 641–642 AD (Fustat) |
Last major foundation | 969 AD (Cairo) |
• Governor | Ibrahim Saber Khalil[2] |
• Metro | 2,734 km2 (1,056 sq mi) |
Elevation | 23 m (75 ft) |
• Capital city | 10,100,166[1] |
• Density | 3,700/km2 (10,000/sq mi) |
• Metro [4] | 22,623,900 |
• Demonym | Cairene |
Time zone | UTC+02:00 (EET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+03:00 (EEST) |
Area code | (+20) 2 |
Website | cairo.gov.eg |
Official name | Historic Cairo |
Type | Cultural |
Criteria | i, v, vi |
Designated | 1979 |
Reference no. | 89 |
Cairo (KY-roh; Arabic: القاهرة, romanized: al-Qāhirah, Egyptian Arabic:&
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60 Notable Books of 2024
By Paula Willie-Okafor and Orji Victor Ebubechukwu
The notable books of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by African writers published in 2024, selected by the staff of Open Country Mag.
Editors’ Note: Open Country Mag may earn a commission if you bought the books via the Amazon affiliate hyperlinks.
POETRY
Besaydoo, Yalie Saweda Kamara
Milkweed Editions | January 2024
With sharp detail and like a griot, the Sierra Leonean poet weaves the complexities of identity, culture, and the Krio, English, and French languages into a rich tapestry of myth, memory, and experience — a love song to home. Won the Jake Adam York Prize.
Origins of the Syma Species, Tares Oburumu
University of Nebraska Press | March 2024
Oburumu — profiled in this magazine — offers a personal exploration of his roots in Syma, a neglected oil-producing region of Nigeria, where he grew up with a single mother and now lives as a single parent himself.
Daughter Wound, Nkateko Masinga
Hazel Press | April 2024
A young, Black, South African woman’s negotiation of intimate relationships: sexual, familial, and political.
No Gods Live Here, Conceição Lima
Phoneme Media | April 2024
The first book-length collec