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New book by Vahid Brown and Don Rassler exploring relationship between Al-Qaeda and Haqqani network published in March
Ten years and tens of millions of copies later, 'The Da Vinci Code' is on the house.
Philip Mansel to lecture on Levantine cities and history of Alexandria at AUC and Bibliotheca Alexandrina this week
New periodical aims to shed light on social and cultural changes in Arab world over past two years
Former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has a book deal to provide a "behind-the-scenes" account of the U.S. financial crisis
Author Tan Twan Eng became the first Malaysian author to win Asia's top literary prize on Thursday for his novel set during the aftermath of the Japanese occupation of Malaya
Sameh Eid attempt to compile a basic database of Islamic movements worldwide, aiming to pave the way to more in-depth research, is shallow
Groups representing US authors and publishers call on Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to deny Amazon rights to websites ending with .book, .author, or .read
With masterpieces of Arab written heritage such as 'One Thousand and One Nights' at risk of censorship by Islamist conservatives, Egyptian former culture minister Gaber Asfour comes to the defence in his new book
Bestselling author Reza Aslan attempts to answer the question: Is America Becoming Islamophobic? on Wednesday, 13 March at the American University in Cairo downtown campus
The collection of short stories features an experimental style alternating between two authors
Mitchell will be lecturing in Cairo on 16 and 17 April on the Carbon Democracy and the Economentality at the American University in Cairo
The Arab Publishes Conference discussed the details of electronic publishing, its challenges and where some solutions are needed before this market can ever take off

Despite what some saw as a hard push to grant an Egyptian the prize, judges awarded Yemeni, Al-Maqaleh for his 5 decades of influence on modern Arab poetry

Egypt's only international poetry gathering is excluding eminent names and ignoring contemporary poetic forms, argue some young poets

Writer Gamal Omar launches his book about theologian Nasr Hamed Abu Zayd's life, fulfilling his promise to the renowned late thinker

A new book by artist and activist Heba Helmy attempts to "preserve" revolutionary graffiti before it is too late

Lebanese writers Hazem Saghia traces the life of a Sri Lankan servant working in Arab homes, suffering torture, detention and mistreatment

A hot debate on whether to allow an Islamist channel to record the discussion lead by liberal author Al-Aswany on extremist thinker Sayed Kotb nearly overshadowed the topic itself

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

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