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Authors Guild president and best-selling novelist Scott Turow is condemning Amazon.com's purchase of Goodreads, a leading book recommendation website
Young adult author John Green has written an introduction for a book about the teen cancer victim to whom he dedicated his best-selling novel "The Fault in Our Stars"
Penguin Group (USA), publisher of Khaled Hosseini, Harlan Coben and other popular authors, has said it's comfortable with letting libraries offer e-book editions of brand new releases
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager shot in the head by the Taliban, is writing a memoir
Lewis won the Pulitzer in 1955 for national reporting for the Washington Daily News and again in 1963 for national reporting for The New York Times between 1969 to 2001
Alef bookshop in Heliopolis will host writer Basma Abdel-Aziz on Tuesday, 26 March at 7pm
Al-Ain Publishing house, will host Hamdy El-Batran, to discuss his book tracking the practices of the Security apparatus in Egypt since the 1980's
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
The Egyptian security apparatus under Mubarak had no guiding philosophy and mostly depended on the use of violence, says Hamdy El-Batran in new book

Secretary-general of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation will be signing his book at Shorouk booshop in Cairo during his visit to Egypt this week

Spicy stuffed squid and roasted watermelon salad are among the unexpected culinary delights of the Gaza Strip, despite Israeli and Egyptian border blockades

Philip Mansel tracked the history of three Levantine coastal cities - Alexandria, Beirut and Smyrna - exploring what made these cosmopolitan centres great, and why they were ultimately vulnerable

Arab Publishers' Conference discusses threats to publishing from online pirates and how to beat them

Conference, to be held on 23 and 24 March at Egypt's Bibliotheca Alexandrina, will discuss challenges, developments in world of Arab publishing

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

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