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This book investigates the issues of violence and crime at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of twentieth century in Egypt
The stories of Ahmed El-Khamisi represent the capacity of one of the major Arab short story writers
This book debates the problems of power and knowledge in Islam through the study of Islamic political experiment and its roots in different literary works
The Supreme Council for Culture have published three documents commemorating the centennial of Naguib Mahfouz
The editorial team of Amkenah Magazine, led by Alaa Khaled,, will be present at Kotob Khan in Maadi on Tuesday 28th of December.
In 1848, the German voyager Prem visited the Sudan for the first time, accompanied by Baron Von Mueller.
The Cultural Committee of the Egyptian writers’ union announced that there will be a monthly salon for youth, titled Youth’s Salon, on the first Saturday of each month.
The book market in Egypt picks up during the Christmas/New Year season, as shoppers - both Christians and those who just like to celebrate - exchange gifts
Sherif Abdel Samad will be signing copies of his new novel, Something from the Past, at Diwan Bookstore in Zamalek from 7pm on Sunday December 26th.
Celebrated writer Ibrahim Al-Koni gives LE100,000 in prize money to children in Mali and Niger
Libyian author Ibrahim Al-Koni is rumoured to be the winner of this year’s Arabic novel award to be announced today
Sefsafa publishing celebrated its first year in business since opening last year. Mohamed El-Baali has published twenty-five titles and commissioned two titles for translation with the University of Sorbonne in Paris
El-Ghitany's short stories over the past ten years finally come together in this remarkable collection.

The most important fact revealed by the publication of Abdel-Hakim Kassim’s letters is that they are not just small fragments on the margin of literary effort

Khaled Ziyada’s City by the Mediterranean is an encyclopaedic work after which the true identity of the city remains ambiguous

A little novella, only seventy-seven pages long, relates the story of Vienna, a woman struggling against a society that confines females to the smallest of worlds

Al-Koni's Great Desert is often mistaken for an empty land. His translator into English, the Chair of the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University shares his own insights of the Libyan writer's work

In his new novel, Ibrahim Abdel-Meguid writes about online life in all its bitter-sweet complexity

Lucette Lagnado writes about her Jewish family's happy life in Egypt and the pains of exodus

Khaled El-Barri’s latest novel shortlisted for Arabic Booker prize creates a new impression of the life of Egyptians living abroad

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