Tahrir Square
Hot Spring
Boyd Tonkin 8 July 2017 9:00 am
Imagine if Kathy Lette — or possibly Julie Burchill — had written a feminist, magic-realist saga that sent four women…
For Egypt, a bitter winter has followed the Arab spring
Nicholas Blincoe 30 January 2016 9:00 am
Jack Shenker is a throwback to an older, more romantic age when foreign correspondents were angry, partisan and half-crazed with…
The revolution that went up in smoke
Sara Wheeler 22 August 2015 9:00 am
‘Every day’, writes the foreign correspondent Wendell Steavenson in this account of the 2011 Egyptian revolution, ‘see-sawed between joy and…
When Dr Johnson went to Tahrir Square
Kate Chisholm 30 May 2015 9:00 am
Goodness knows what the Great Cham would have made of Radio 4 airing an adapted version of his philosophical fable,…