Books

The Egyptian publishing house Dar Al Shorouk celebrated the launch of a joint venture on Tuesday.Shorouk-Penguin will publish Arabic works…

A few weeks ago, up-and-coming writer Omnia Fawzy celebrated the launch of her first book, Etgawezni, Shokran (‘Marry Me, Thank…

Egyptian publishing house Dar Al Shorouk together with UK publisher the Penguin Group will launch a major joint project on…

In Mahmoud Darwish’s Journal of an Ordinary Grief--published in 1973 as Yawmiyyat al-Huzn al-'Adi and now available in English translation--the…

“Our society annihilates us in a thousand ways on a daily basis, so we learn gradually how to get our…

Etgawezni Shokran (Marry Me…Thank you); a short book by Omnia Fawzy was launched on 4 November with a  book signing…

French scholar and renowned translator of Arabic literature Richard Jaquemond spoke on Wednesday night at the American University in Cairo…

All of the different forms of capitalism and progressive economic philosophy a government can espouse, if taken up without adequate…

In the early 1970s, Abdel Moneim Abou el-Fotouh was enrolled at Cairo University’s medical school. Back then, he did not…

The Sharjah International Book Fair—the region’s second-largest after Cairo—is an event under construction. Just a few years ago, it was…