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Trailer for an 80 minute documentary by Sherif Faty Salem, produced in 2011 for SPOT1.tv and Al Jazeera. One man interviewed in the trailer...

The Guardian published a great obituary on Hobsbawm, who died on October 1. He was born in Alexandria in 1917, and moved to Vienna with his...

Sayed Darwish (picture courtesy of the Friends of Sayyid Darwish Association; found here ) From a report in Egypt Independent on yeste...

It is often, in fact one should say, nearly always, claimed that the celebrated Greek Alexandrian poet Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933), li...

Anne de Zogheb in ensemble by Pierre Balmain, Marie Claire, March 1963 Anne de Zogheb was a top international fashion model in the late 5...

For the moment, this is just a place maker, and a tribute. I really like the Alexandrian music group Eskenderella. (And think about it, what...