Author: Samir Grees

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Protests in Cairo (photo: AP)

An Interview with the Egyptian Author May Telmissany

For Secularism and Civil Society

In order not to leave the field open to fundamentalists, numerous Egyptian activists and intellectuals have expressed their commitment to the establishment of a civil and secular state. The author May Telmissany is among them. An interview by Samir GreesMore

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Demonstration atTahrir Square in Cairo (photo: AP)

The Merit Publishing House in Cairo

A Mecca for Intellectuals, a Centre of the Revolution

The Merit publishing house was only founded in 1998, but quickly assumed a key role in the country's political opinion making. Samir Grees visited the Merit offices and spoke to founder Muhammad HashimMore

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Banished from paradise: in Biblical times, paradise was where Adam and Eve lived, supposedly the area between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers – until God banished them from the Garden of Eden because they nibbled on the forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. There are still lush oases on the banks of the river, but people's lives there today are anything but paradisiacal.

Pope Francis' visit to Iraq's biblical sites

Abraham was born in Iraq and this is where the whale swallowed Jonah, according to the Bible. Pope Francis' is travelling to an area steeped in biblical history.