Khaled Mansour
Minefield (Arabic Novel)
The novel draws the reader into the world of Cairo as a seductive, tired, and harsh city, full of promises, menace, dreams, and nightmares, where the past, with trembling hands, strangulates a present struggling to escape and survive with no clear exist in sight. Will Khalil survive and manage to cross a field of mines that explode underneath him one after another? And will he, with the help of love and friendship, be able to tame the demons that have always haunted him, or at least learn to live with them?

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Books, Friendship, Palestinians, Letters and more … (FB statuses Sep 2025 to Feb 2026)
20 Feb 2026 — Staying late reading a history book about prophet Mohammad and listening to early 20th century songs of Umm Kalthoum while waiting for the US to tell us that they have started bombing Iran again (or not). 23 Jan 2026 – “When I saw you in Egypt last August, you looked very […]
From 9/11 to Gaza: How I lost faith in the humanitarian system
“The Israeli revenge war has become a watershed, but it is by no means some sudden new trend.” First published in The New Humanitarian on October 27, 2025 Twenty-four years ago, on 11 September 2001, I sat on the veranda of a picturesque seafront restaurant in the Gaza Strip. I had started working for the […]
Libraries, Bookshops, Genocide, Trump and the world we live in (FB posts January-August 2025)
31 July 2025 – Borges said that heaven will be a library. This is how I felt in Hodges and Figgis Bookshop after visiting the old Trinity college Library in Dublin. The new books and the old manuscripts and the serious ess of it all compared to the AI hype and post-truth internet flood. 22 June 2025 — Two […]