Michael Haag

Open cities are the mothers of open societies, and their existence is especially essential to literature - which is why, I suppose, we cher...

Mummified crocodiles. I have recently acquired a new desktop computer.  I needed to install Microsoft Office in order to use Word, the ...

A Provençal nativity with local villagers dropping in. In Monsieur: The Prince of Darkness , the firs...

The French edition of my book The Tragedy of the Templars will be published by Ixelles Editions on 5 February 2014 as La Tragédie des Te...

One of the last photographs taken of Cavafy, 1932. I was reading this entry for the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy in The Oxford Compani...

Alexandria in World War II is a 'found poem' composed by Anis Shivani and published in the summer 2013 issue of The Missing Slate ....

The Tragedy of the Templars recently rose to the rank of number one in books about Christian Church Institutions, according to Amazon UK. ...

  A Cairo Anthology edited by Deborah Manley has been published by The American University in Cairo Press and is available in Britain and...

Protesters in Alexandria demanding protection for the city's heritage. The campaign to save the Villa Ambron , home to Lawrence Durr...

The French Gardens, view towards the Eastern Harbour. The Majestic Hotel with its twin cupolas is on the right. This post is occasio...

The Hotel Cecil under construction along the Corniche in 1929. The other day I received an email from an Alexandrian called Zahraa Aw...