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On the birtday of Abdel-Hakim Kassim, Mohamed Shoair has compiled the letters he wrote throughout his life and recorded them in this new title, released today from Merit publishing house
The National Council for Translation celebrates Mohamed El-Kholy award for his translation of "The collapse of Globalisation and the Reinvention of the World" by John Ralston Saul
The decision of Bibliotheca Alexandrina to invite Algerian novelist Wassini Al-Aaraj to lecture was a practical initiative to reconcile Egyptian-Algerian cultural relations
Nubian author Idris Ali passed away yesterday at the age of 70 as a result of a heart attack
Culture Ministry celebrates Egypt's National Library and Archive.
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina Dialogue Forum will hold the second meeting of the “Middle Generation Platform” entitled “The Future of Culture in Egypt: Visions of the Middle Generations,” 29-30 November 2010
Mohamed Salah El-Azab is signing his first book, Sidi Barrani, at Diwan Bookstore in Zamalek on Friday, 26 November 2010
A reprint of a study of human consciousness, dealing with violence and peace issues in the educational heritage of Egyptian society, highlighting problems like suicide, crime and insecurity in Egypt.
The CEO of Penguin Group and Ibrahim El-Moalem signed the Shorouk-Penguin agreement, through which Shorouk maintains the rights to publish Penguin classic titles in Arabic
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina is hosting a series of workshops aimed at raising the writing skills of young Alexandrian authors.
In the hands of Miral Al-Tahawy, life as an emigrant is a struggle for harmony one might not win

A newly published translation of the last writings of Egypt’s first prime minister aims at rehabilitating a tarnished reputation.

At a time when Palestinian-Israeli negotiations seem to be again hitting another impasse there comes a new book that re-tells the many details of the long and still unfolding saga of the Arab-Israeli talks for peace.

After thirty years of relative silence, Gennaro Gervasio opens the old files of the "third wave" of the Egyptian Marxist movement.

A heady mix of fantasy and sexuality marks the latest book of one of Egypt’s rising literary talents.

Samia Mehrez explores the representation of the city in modern Egyptian literature

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