Books

Renowned Qatari poet Mohamed Bin al-Dheeb al-Ajami was sentenced by the Qatari State Security Court to life in prison on…

Egyptian novelist Mohamed Rabie comes off very shy compared to the daring topics he delves into in “The Year of…

It was not Amir Tag Elsir’s plan to write a novel within a novel. When he first sat down to…

The following are segments from a longer poem — “Moons and Donkeys" — which I wrote after I spent a…

In the second part of our review of the Institut d’Egypte, Egypt Independent is focusing on the restoration of its…

Almost a year after it was set ablaze during clashes nearby, the Institut d’Egypte has reopened its doors boasting the…

Love is a subject that has animated great poetry, novels and memoirs for a thousand years and more. Hate has…

“Of the martyrs of the revolution we lost before we even thought of a revolution,” wrote a tweep on her…

What may be harder than making a revolution is writing a good novel about it. Ezzedine Choukri Fishere, a political…

Salman Rushdie is a name well-known to Arabic readers, although his fame doesn’t really come from his books. Instead, it…