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An evening to commemorate the first anniversary of Ibrahim Aslan's death will be held at Cairo Atelier on Tuesday at 7pm
The sports book tackles history of Ultras Ahlawy, the hardcore fans of Cairo-based football team Al-Ahly, from social, economic and artistic angle
Marx's Communist Manifesto as well as writings by Soviet strongman Joseph Stalin were among the banned books
Mantel will look to add to her impressive list of literary honours, after "Bring up the Bodies", the sequel to her acclaimed historical novel "Wolf Hall," scooping the Costa Novel Award category
New book by the head of Al-Ahzar aiming to explain Islamic moral values comes in response to alleged attacks on Islam in the West
The story is told as a collection of memories that include Greyson's childhood with his mentally ill father, the discord that his symptoms cause in his marriage and professional life
Leonard won the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in November, joining such U.S. literary luminaries as Toni Morrison, John Updike
Abdel Gawad Yassin, one of the most controversial Islamic thinkers of our day, reinterprets the relation between religion and politics
The new series will present Arabic literary heritage to readers in new editions, including the first modern Arabic novel
Life on Hold, released in English, explores the gap between the old impoverished world of Saudis and the consumeristic years after various oil booms and the dichotomies it created
One of Germany's top publishers, Suhrkamp, released the travelogue "Allein Unter Deutschen" this month, jamming a finger in the wound of one of the world's most fraught relationships
Targeting students 14 to 18 years, a science and engineering fair to be held in March aims to increase awareness of the importance of scientific research
Judge Abdel-Gawad Yassin says Sharia law must be open to change because it is related to the social life of the people and argues religious practice in the public sphere must be restructured to take account of this fact

Mohamed Abul-Ghar shows how Jews were well integrated into Egyptian society and how things started to change after the 1948 Palestine War

At a recent conference, Egyptian historians and academics argue that religion has been used to serve authoritarian political interests since the East knew religion

Mekkawi never accepted the common conception that philosophy and literature are opposed; he was known for his philosophical works and saw himself as a literary writer

A writers' committee will republish books for cheap that they consider shaped Egyptian identity in a move to buffer Islamist efforts to narrowly define Egyptian culture

British-born author Anne Zouroudi speaks to Reuters about 'The Doctor of Thessaly,' the third in a series of detective stories

Egyptian author's novel Bayt Al-Dib will be translated into English as part of the AUC award

The children's literature longlist includes four Egyptian writers - Mikkawi Saeed, Walid Taher, Sahar Abdullah and Najla Jalal Al-Sayyed Allam

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