Books

  Graphic novels are “cheap, fast, and accessible,” according to Amir, author of “Zahra’s Paradise,” (he has chosen, along with his illustrator…

The years I worked as a translator were some of the most frustrating of my career. I would often spend…

Robert Wedderburn’s mother was a slave who was sold by Wedderburn’s father, a Scottish plantation owner, when she was five…

Chinese writer Mo Yan won the 2012 Nobel prize for literature on Thursday for works which combine "hallucinatory realism" with…

Concerned about copyrights and regulating publishing, the Egyptian Publishers Association has put together a document envisioned to be a reference…

Salman Rushdie believes literature has lost much of its influence in the West, and movie stars like George Clooney and…

Maged Zaher’s latest collection of poems, “The Revolution Happened and You Didn’t Call Me,” is a slim, postcard-shaped volume of…

In late August, organizers of the Etel Adnan Award for Women Playwrights announced that their 2012 award would go to…

ALEXANDRIA — Despite being surrounded by the ruins of neighboring businesses — book-selling kiosks identical to his own — Ibrahim…

Ramallah has a shining international image: it has restaurants, nightclubs, culture, fun. In Joe Sacco’s pioneering graphic novel “Palestine,” all…