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The 'Exchange your book' festival will begin at 9pm this Saturday, 6 August, and will continue until Sohor at Al-Takaaeba center for cultural development
The book is a collection of papers tackling the issue of discrimination against religious minorities in Egypt through media coverage
Respected psychiatrist Dr. Abd-El-Moneim Ashour shares his life in autobiography
The latest collection of short stories by Mahmoud Abdel-Wahab includes 18 short stories
Abdel-Monim Ramdan's new poetry collection is intended to take the reader on a tour through Ramadan's closest belongings: poetry, articles and friends
Al Zaytoun Workshop will host the writer Ezz Edin Choukri on Thrusday 28 July to sign and discuss his novel
Akmal Egypt bookstore in Alexandria will play host to the 'Short Story Forum', which will last for two days starting from Sunday 24 July
The third edition of writer Abdo Gobir's Radwan's Vacation has been published
At the conclusion of its conference, the Egyptian Writers Union drafted seven articles to guide the preparation of the new Egyptian constitution
Author Miral Al-Tahawy will have a book signing at Al-Shorouk bookstore on Sunday, 17 July
Nabil Abd El-Fattah's newest edition contains four new studies on religion and culture
Having stopped publication during the Revolution, Weghat Nazar magazine is making up for lost time with a three part issue
Timetable for the cultural events taking place alongside the Ramadan Book Fair in Faysal Street

The Ramadan Book Fair is set to open 5 - 25 August with special iftar hours, performances and political discussions

Lebanese researcher Dalal Al-Berzy tells her own experience of living in Egypt for 10 years, comparing internalised images of Cairo with its modern reality

Hamdi El-Batran, a police officer and writer, describes the experience of the renunciation of violence by Islamist groups in Egypt, and details their debates and revision of thought

Renowned Egyptian writer Ibrahim Abdel-Meguid launches his latest book, Every Land Has a Birth, about Tahrir Square and the January Revolution

Tunisian readers are looking back and reading about their own history and Islamism in a new era in which censorship is gone

Mohamed Hashim, owner of Merit publishing house, was awarded the Hermann Kesten award, offerred annually by the PEN center in Germany, for supporting freedom of expression

Story-telling, an important door to a love of reading and learning, is offered by Egypt's bookstores over the summer holiday

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