Egyptian minister Moufid Shehab called it “the engineering installation on our eastern borders” — a euphemism that at least suggests a certain discomfort in official circles. Its many opponents more …
Jonathan Wright

Jonathan Wright
Jonathan Wright is a translator and former Reuters journalist. His previous translations from the Arabic include Khaled Al Khamissi’s Taxi, Youssef Ziedan’s Azazeel (Winner of the IPAF, 2009), Saud Alsanousi’s The Bamboo Stalk (Winner of the IPAF, 2013), Hammour Ziada’s The Longing of the Dervish (Winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Prize), Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad (shortlisted for the Man Booker International), Mazen Maarouf ’s Jokes for the Gunmen (shortlisted for the Man Booker International), and Hassan Blasim’s God 99, The Madman of Freedom Square and The Iraqi Christ (winner of the 2014 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize). He lives in London.
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The siege has destroyed the economy in the Gaza Strip,” said Moeen Rajab, an economist at Al-Azhar University in Gaza City, noting the Strip’s land and sea borders have been …
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The first rumors that a building project had commenced on the Egyptian side of the Egypt-Gaza border in the northern Sinai circulated in December 2009. Although the Egyptian government initially …
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Egypt and Algeria have never been the best or closest of friends. When their paths have crossed, most notably in the heyday of Arab nationalism and non-alignment, it was as …
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