Samia Serageldin's Blog

  If I needed proof of how “ algorithms ” work, this is it: lately I discovered that Italian PM Georgia Meloni ’s speeches and interviews ar...

  “You never know,” my mother used to say. And my father and I would shake our heads at her unwarranted optimism. “There’s no hope for this...

  Heartbroken, and terrified, about this elementary school shooting in Minnesota. The two children who died were exactly the age, 10 and 8, ...

 Confessions of a Dante dilettante: I’ve dipped into Inferno over the years, fascinated to discover how Bosch’s triptych might have been inf...

                         “ The Enemy Within.”  “Enemies of the people.” When I hear these words I have an atavistic reaction. I grew up hear...

  How can a film about a fraught super-high stakes election help get you through the fraught supe-high stakes American election? My theory a...

  The Paris Olympics hot air balloon, Napoleon in Egypt, and the hero of The Naqib’s Daughter   Watching the hot air balloon that dominate...

  Françoise Hardy and I  Nothing has the power to bounce you back to your teenage years like the music of that decade, and nothing sobers y...

  Today the roses are in glorious full bloom for the first time this Spring. But so is the kudzu, its malignant vines obliterating entire ba...

 Ridley Scott’s Napoleon is baffling. From the get go, the miscasting of Joaquin Phoenix as the eponymous antihero is fatal. The actor looks...