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Libyan novelist Ibrahim al-Kouny, born in Ghadames, Libya in 1948, received on Wednesday the 2010 Arab Novel award from the…

As the International Forum for Arab Novel Creativity is nearing an end, prominent novelist Alaa Al-Aswany voices incendiary criticism of…

"Women's stories haven't yet been told,” said Afaf Alsayed, an Egyptian novelist and feminist who advocates for a more radical…

Sunday marked the opening of the fifth International Forum for Arab Novel Creativity in Cairo, held at the Cairo Opera…

Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni will inaugurate the 43rd Cairo International Book Fair on 26 January at the Cairo International…

On Saturday, 11 December—the date of Naguib Mahfouz’s would-be 99th birthday—writers, publishers, critics, and translators braved sandstorms and rain to…

Two young Egyptian authors have made the shortlist for the 2011 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF), popularly known as…

The rich ambiguity and artistry of contemporary Polish cinema--Roman Polański, Krzysztof Kieślowski—is mostly ignored in “Born of the Sea,” the…

Set in a nameless Egyptian city in the early 1960s, “The Jokers” (NYRB 2010) is a ruthless send-up of power, corruption…

The Fond Mercator, a renowned Belgium publishing house specializing in art books, has recently published “Heliopolis,” a 240-page richly illustrated…