In the Spider’s Room 1st May 2020
Hani was out for an evening stroll near Cairos Tahrir Square when a heavy hand landed on his shoulder. An informant had identified him, and he was thrown into the back of a police truck. There began a seven-month...
Blogs in May 2020
Beyond the Margin 13th April 2020
Is living on the edge of society a choice? Or is choice a luxury of the fortunate? Joe, fighting drug addiction, runs until the sea halts his progress. His is a faltering search for meaningful relationships. ‘Let Luck be...
Too Loud A Silence 13th April 2020
A secret held, a fear unspoken. Green gates and a flame tree – just as her mother described. The bolt screeches back … It is 2011. Egypt is in the grip of the Arab Spring as journalist Maha Rhodes...
The Magnificent Conman of Cairo 3rd April 2020
Khaled, the spoiled idle son of a pasha, meets Malim, carpenter’s apprentice and son of a scoundrel, when he comes to fix a broken window. In the course of his work, Malim stumbles across a stash of money and...
Daughter of the Gods 20th February 2020
Egypt, 1400s BC. The pharaoh’s pampered second daughter, lively, intelligent Hatshepsut, delights in racing her chariot through the marketplace and testing her archery skills in the Nile’s marshlands. But the death of her elder sister, Neferubity, in a gruesome...
Please wait...
