Nile River Delta

Egyptian writer and journalist Magdi Abdelhadi provides an audio essay about what the army means to Egyptians of his generation and how its songs embodied the dream of a proud and modern Egypt.

Learn Egyptian car horn code for expressions like ‘Open your eyes!’ ‘You are no driver!’ and, of course, ‘I love you.’

Egypt’s new president, Mohamed Mursi, is doing something his predecessor would never have allowed. He’s taking petitions directly from people with grievances, and allowing protests outside his palace.

Last fall Bruce Ferguson, the influential former dean of Columbia University’s School of the Arts, took a job in Egypt – as the dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the American University in Cairo. Kurt Andersen talks with Ferguson about what he saw in Tahrir Square and the important role culture […]