Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Egyptian novelist, journalist and short-story writer Gamal El-Ghitani is one of the most prominent literary figures of the Arab World. A prolific writer of historical fiction and political commentary, he published his first short story when he was 14. In 1966 Ghitani was impri
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—On the one-year anniversary of the ouster of Egypt’s first, and likely last, Islamist president Mohamed Mursi, the Muslim Brotherhood finds itself in an increasingly difficult situation both at home and abroad. The Brotherhood has been designated a terrorist organization by bo
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Egypt’s Islamists will face a tough test at parliamentary elections expected later this year amid growing public anger toward the Islamist trend and increasing inter-Islamist divisions following the ouster of former Islamist president Mohamed Mursi last July and the blacklisti
