Wiam El-Tamami

Wiam El-Tamami

Wiam El-Tamami is a writer, editor and translator. She has lived in Egypt, Vietnam, England and Kuwait, travels far and wide, and is currently based in Istanbul.

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The Mother of All Sins

Hanan al-Shaykh

‘Loving life is the mother of all sins.’

Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Cairo: September 2014

Wiam El-Tamami

‘Over the past few months, the government has been ad-libbing the time.’

Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

This July

Wiam El-Tamami

I can only say, there we have been: but I cannot say where. –  T. S....

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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Revolution Revived: Egyptian Diary, Part Two

Wiam El-Tamami

‘It’s getting closer, you see. Every wave will be more violent, will radicalize people who were once far from the front lines’

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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Revolution Revived: Egyptian Diary, Part One

Wiam El-Tamami

‘This is what they don’t tell you on the news – about the pockets of normalcy that always exist, persist’

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Fiction | The Online Edition

Gothic Night

Mansoura Ez Eldin

‘He wrote: they called it the city of eternal sun. Its sun set only after the last inhabitant slept, and rose before the first got up. They were all deprived of the night. They were not even aware of its existence.’

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