“My parents never regretted leaving Egypt, but they spoke with nostalgia about their lives there. Jews, Christians and Muslims had lived together peacefully, and Jews thrived as an integral part of society. However, as the Arab/Zionist conflict emerged, they began…read more →
“‘Toi, Paris, tu m’as pris dans tes bras — You, Paris, you took me into your arms.’ So sang Enrico Macias, an Algerian-born Jew, in his 1964 anthem. The song was a big hit in France, especially among French Jews,…read more →
“‘Everyone should write at least one book in their lifetime,’ my nephew Jason once declared with great conviction. I remember pondering the thought at the time, struck by the maturity of the remark coming from a teenage boy. Fast forward…read more →
“As an Egyptian-born Jew, I am profoundly disturbed by the depth of the hatred that has escalated between Arabs and Jews in the Middle East. After facing cultural extinction, I want to give a voice to Middle Eastern and North…read more →
“Let’s face it, a change in career mid-life can be challenging, and when such change is not motivated by an external circumstance but purely out of an emotional need to express oneself in a different way, it borders on lunacy….read more →
“I was born in Egypt, but when I was three years old life as I knew it came to an end with the 1956 Suez Canal Crisis. My family was Jewish. They’d been there for a couple of generations, but…read more →
On this eve of Passover, I’m thinking about my mom and how she used to prepare so far in advance for the celebration of this holiday. She started to clean the house at least one month in advance. Every single…read more →
Juliana Maio was born in Egypt, but expelled from the country with her family during the Suez Crisis. She was raised in France, completed her higher education in the United States, and today, Juliana practices entertainment law in Los Angeles. She…read more →
Last night I watched The Place Beyond the Pines in the coziness of my den. Even though the film was directed by the very talented Derek Cianfrance and starred two of my very favorite actors (Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper), I chose not…read more →
During her recent talk at UCLA, Lucette Lagnado, an investigative reporter for the Wall Street Journal, expressed nostalgia for a lost world as she discussed her memoirs about her family’s life in Egypt and subsequent exile in America. … READ…read more →
