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Farid Farid

Farid Farid is a Cairo based journalist. He has been published in New Statesman, Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian. Follow him on @FaridYFarid

August 2018

  • Essam Ahmed holding King Farouk’s alarm clock with a portrait of Solomon Hinhayat in the background, Cairo, Egypt

    ‘How can a proud country kill its heritage?’ Cairo calls time on oldest watch shop

    Loss of heritage buildings and inadequate compensation spark outrage as bulldozers raze area associated with Arab spring

March 2015

  • Sinan Antoon

    Sinan Antoon: an Iraqi novelist living in continuous mourning

    A forthcoming translation of Antoon’s third novel Ya Mariam, which comes in the wake of latest Isis atrocities, has Antoon wondering: ‘how do you write about a country that is disintegrating?’
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