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?

Articles
Life under the war on Iran
27 March 2026 – The BBC had a report on how many Iranian civilians were killed by Israel’s army bombing. Then they invited the former head of the Israeli military intelligence to tell them that his country is using precision weapons and that they should interview Iranians who are hitting Israel. And then he told […]
How AI weaponises confusion to fuel harm and block accountability
Published at The New Humanitarian on 26 March 2026 Every morning, millions across conflict zones reach for their phones. They search for news. What greets them – alongside the genuine – is a flood of deceptive synthetic imagery. This is not an accident. It is an industry. Iranian missiles reducing Tel Aviv to rubble. American […]
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 […]