It’s about two weeks old, but Baheyya has written a beautiful portrait of the recently deceased Marxist intellectual and public servant (in the best sense of the term) Ismail Sabri Abdullah.
I wish Baheyya would write more these days, but then again things are so much more depressing than they were last year. I can’t blame her for hibernating.
Update: Al Ahram Weekly also has pieces on Abdullah here and here.