George Iskander
George Iskander is an Egyptian-American Ph.D. candidate in physics at the University of Chicago.
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‘Four Daughters’ Breaks the Mold To Give an Honest Picture of a Mother’s Loss
Kaouther Ben Hania's newest documentary, “Four Daughters,” traces the life of Olfa Hamrouni, a Tunisian mother whose two eldest daughters joined the Islamic State group in 2016. Its innovative storytelling, mixing actors with real subjects, made a splash last year at Cannes and just scored an Oscar nomination.
Embracing Egyptianness in the Diaspora
Both Copts and Muslims say Egypt is our mother because she gives us life, because she is our source, because she is so inextricably linked with religion and identity. But the diaspora often has to make sense of faith in an increasingly secularized world.
‘Animalia’: A MENA Look at Apocalypse
In Sofia Alaoui’s apocalypse, we regard tomorrow as we regard a child: the end of our existence but the beginning and continuation of something in which we have played a hand; a new unity that beckons all of us toward a vision of possibility.