Wiam El-Tamami
Wiam El-Tamami is a writer, translator and editor. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Granta, Freeman’s, Social Movement Studies, Jadaliyya, Banipal, Ploughshares Solos and Craft. She won the 2011 Harvill Secker Translation Prize and was a finalist for the 2023 Disquiet Prize.
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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Cairo: September 2014
Wiam El-Tamami
‘Over the past few months, the government has been ad-libbing the time.’
Fiction | The Online Edition
Gothic Night
Mansoura Ez Eldin
‘He wrote: they called it the city of eternal sun. Its sun set only after the last inhabitant slept, and rose before the first got up. They were all deprived of the night. They were not even aware of its existence.’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
This July
Wiam El-Tamami
‘It felt as though time would fall off a cliff on Sunday. We jokingly called it The End of the World.’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Revolution Revived: Egyptian Diary
Wiam El-Tamami
‘This is what they don’t tell you on the news – about the pockets of normalcy that always exist, persist.’