Jack Shenker is a writer based in London and Cairo. Formerly Egypt correspondent for the Guardian, he is the author of The Egyptians: A Radical Story, which has been shortlisted for the 2017 Bread and Roses Award.
‘My Cairo is an inverted city, one that wears its innards above the skin.’
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