Ashraf Aboul-Yazid’s A Backyard Garden is a profoundly human, polyphonic novel set in contemporary Egypt. It weaves together the lives of individuals in the village of Kafr El-Sarai, focusing particularly on the enigmatic figure of Sayyid Kamal—a hero of the Egyptian independence movement who retreats from public life to live
In 1964, in Paris, the global Egyptian star Omar Sharif was filming his famous movie Doctor Zhivago. He was living at the time with his British actor friend Sir Tom Courtenay in the same apartment. Sharif noticed Courtenay’s deep passion for the results of the English football team Hull City, which was then playing in the second
In this August 2025 edition of CAJ International Magazine, we invite readers on a journey that spans continents, ideologies, and imaginations. With 13 diverse articles that move from intimate literary dialogues to seismic political events, this issue offers more than a snapshot of global affairs—it is a cultural atlas of our
In a literary evening that defied Cairo’s summer heat with breezes of creativity, Bayt Al-Hekma Publishing House hosted a seminar on Wednesday evening, July 30, 2025, to discuss the new young adult novel My Father, the Mapmaker by author Ashraf Aboul-Yazid. The event was moderated and critically explored by Dr. Mohamed Maher Bassiouni,
Alphabet's (GOOGL.O), opens new tab Google will sign the European Union's code of practice which aims to help companies comply with the bloc's landmark artificial intelligence rules, its global affairs president said in a blog post on Wednesday, though he voiced some concerns.
According to Reuters, the voluntary code of
