Articles and Essays - Tapa blanda

This is Samir Sobhy’s first non-fiction prose in English. It contains articles and essays he wrote over a number of years while in the United States and Egypt. These pieces deal with diverse subjects, touching upon Egypt, the United States, and the Middle-East; as well as politics, international relations, the media, travel, and even some philosophical themes! He has written these articles and essays to express his thoughts, ideas, feelings ... and frustrations! None of them has been published before, but he wanted to share them with the readers, with the aim of offering his points of view on the subjects he dealt with. After hesitating on their presentation, he decided a chronological order would be more appropriate, though some of articles deal more or less with the same subject.

Samir Sobhy has written and published several books in Arabic, English, and French, and Spanish. He has written (and illustrated), children’s books, poetry, short stories, and plays, most of which are available on Amazon. This is his first none-fiction prose in English. In addition to being an author, Samir Sobhy is a painter; illustrator; fashion, jewelry, and architectural designer; and a former diplomat. He had several solo and group shows of his art in the United States, Europe, Senegal, and Egypt. Three houses were built from his designs in Senegal and Egypt. Two of his fashion and jewelry collections were shown in Dakar, Senegal. He lives and works in both the United States and Egypt (where he was born).