Articles — The Revealer

Al-Ahd: A Different Kind of Ramadan Serial

August 26, 2015

Patricia Kubala watches “Al-Ahd,” Egypt’s first fantasy television drama.

July 16, 2015

Jahd Khalil reports on the role of the Salafi Dawa in Egyptian politics.

April 8, 2014

Jared Malsin on the religious and political stakes of upheaval at Egypt's Al-Azhar University.

March 7, 2014

Jared Malsin reports from Cairo on the political choices facing Coptic Christians in today's Egypt.

February 1, 2013

By Maurice Chammah "Port Said, once the pariah, is now the vanguard. As the protests turn to street battles,...

September 24, 2012

by Maurice Chammah The call to prayer was not just a reminder of religious extremism. For these elite Egyptians,...

September 17, 2012

by Maurice Chammah At first I did a double take, seeing the word ‘Weinstein’ in simple block letters one...

September 11, 2012

By Maurice Chammah Nasser had...wanted the state to protect journalists from the market, but could that be done without...

July 2, 2012

by Maurice Chammah The editors weren’t pleased. It was too complex...It would be easier, they decided, to frame the...

February 23, 2011

Yasmin Moll, a Ph.D. student in socio-cultural anthropology at NYU, has been our woman in Cairo, reporting what she...