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Egypt’s ‘Poet of the Short Story’ dies at 75

Egypt’s ‘Poet of the Short Story’ dies at 75

Mohamed al-Bisatie was born on a night of rains, thunder and lightning near Lake Manzalah in Daqahlia Governorate. He arrived…
Omar Taher changes his tone in ‘The Qasr al-Aini Ambush’

Omar Taher changes his tone in ‘The Qasr al-Aini Ambush’

Renowned writer and TV presenter Omar Taher strikes again with his latest book, “Kameen al-Qasr al-Aini” (The Qasr al-Aini Ambush),…
Narrating an ongoing revolution: A Syrian novelist writes from the crossfire

Narrating an ongoing revolution: A Syrian novelist writes from the crossfire

Many have criticized the “hasty” Arabic literature that has emerged in the last 16 months, blossoming in both bookstores and…
A story of new writing

A story of new writing

The feeling author Muhammed Aladdin offers his readers in his latest collection of 23 short stories, “The Small and the…
Decentralizing Tahrir Square

Decentralizing Tahrir Square

In his 1970 Nobel lecture, Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn described art and literature as “the only substitute for what we…
Supreme Council of Culture announces winners of state awards

Supreme Council of Culture announces winners of state awards

The Supreme Council of Culture convened on Saturday to vote on winners of the annual State Cultural Awards.
Culture Palaces issue 5,000 copies of Hamdan’s ‘Personality of Egypt’

Culture Palaces issue 5,000 copies of Hamdan’s ‘Personality of Egypt’

The General Authority of Culture Palaces, headed by Poet Saad Abdel Rahman, will issue a popular edition of deceased Geographer…
Telling a Tehrani story

Telling a Tehrani story

  "Zahra’s Paradise," a graphic novel released last September, was inspired by the energy and hope of the 2009 Iranian…
Copy, right?

Copy, right?

  Copyright, as first envisioned, was a way to balance the rights of authors with the rights of their audiences.…
Lucid change

Lucid change

  Books of every genre colored the library of novelist Alaa El Deeb, but what immediately caught my attention as…
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