Books

Ali Bader’s “The Tobacco Keeper” is a complex, emotionally charged novel of masks and shifting identities. It encompasses eighty years,…

  “The Fox Hotel” is a great title for a children’s book, implying all sorts of amusing possibilities. Is it…

  There are good reasons why it is hard to assemble a credible anthology of African short stories. There are…

During a brief visit to the 30th Sharjah International Book Fair, acclaimed Egyptian novelist Ahdaf Soueif gave a first public…

A man sits outdoors playing the rebab, singing a tale, and people start gathering around him, amused. Such is the…

In the US and UK, the word “translation” is often an instant buzz-kill for publishers. Most consider translation synonymous with…

The Egyptian feminist organization, the Women and Memory Forum (WMF), published the first volume in their series of feminist translations, “Reader…

A cooperation protocol was signed on Monday between the Culture Ministry and the American University in Cairo (AUC) to launch…

Not so long ago, the space now colorfully occupied by the new Alexandrian cultural center Al-Cabina was a dump so…

Over the past half century, prolific writer Anis Mansour established his name among those of the nation’s key cultural figures.