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Mitchell will be lecturing in Cairo on 16 and 17 April on the Carbon Democracy and the Economentality at the American University in Cairo
Amish Tripathi, author of mythological fantasy, 'The Shiva Trilogy,' received the sum as an advance for his next trilogy
A new book about immigration reform published on Tuesday by Jeb Bush is fueling speculation that the former Florida governor may be considering a run at the presidency in 2016
Eleven Arab nations will participate in the Arab Publishers Association's second conference, to be held on 23 and 24 March at Egypt's Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Nobel literature laureate Mo Yan has hit back at critics who accused him of being too close to China's government, saying in a newspaper interview he does not write on behalf of the ruling Communist party
The novel by award-winning Egyptian writer Basma Abdel-Aziz mixes fantasy and reality in a setting controlled by a hidden power described as a'gate'
Hassan Hanafi and Coptic thinker Samir Morqos will speak at SCC in Zamalek on Tuesday evening
Akram Alfy relies on political demography analysis to predict voting in upcoming parliamentary elections
'It is not the job of the non-fiction writer to tell you what it feels to be tortured. This is what fiction does,' says Aslam, the celebrated Pakistani raised in Britain, whose novels are grounded in the war on terror
Anti-abortion militant Eric Rudolph, who is serving a life sentence for bombings that killed 2 people in Alabama and Georgia in the 90s, has published his autobiography from prison with the help of his brother
The authors of a new study argue that the Kurdish issue can only be addressed through a national Syrian framework
An Egyptian lawyer whose dissenting voice got him thrown out of the Muslim Brotherhood examines what he calls the group's hidden radicalism in a book that has become a best-seller in Cairo

They cost the state more than a billion Egyptian pounds per year, but students turn to other sources of knowledge to pass their exams

The progress of religious thought over the past two centuries has been 'very slow, almost static,' Egyptian philosopher Hassan Hanafi asserts

80 printing firms facing bankruptcy due to tough new government contracts that will concentrate printing of Egyptian schoolbooks in hands of large government firms

Salem was best-known for his mystery series 'The Five Adventurers'

Youssef Zeidan faces blasphemy charges for his book 'The Arabic Theology' which investigates the relationship between man and God within Islam, Christianity and Judaism

New grand volume brings together texts and the history of major Sufi figures across seven centuries of Islamic civilisation

In his latest book, Egypt's post-revolution media minister Osama Heikal recounts his days in office and the fateful October 2011 'Maspero Incident'

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