Books

American cartoonist Joe Sacco has more or less invented a new category of reporting: graphic journalism--"graphic" in both senses of…

Jeffrey Herf, professor of modern European history at the University of Maryland, College Park, recently authored Nazi Propaganda for the…

Shoehorned between Attaba metro station and a bustling clothes market, Soor el-Azbakiya, Cairo’s famous second-hand book market, is a relic…

At the St. Cyril Melchite church in Heliopolis, several generations of Egyptians of Levantine descent came together to hear about…

Fatima Abdullah has only 1001 nights until she dies. Nobody has told her that exactly; the slightly senile 85-year-old Lebanese…

The Cultural Festival of the city of Granada awarded Tariq Ali awarded the Granadillo 2010 for his novels known as…

It wasn’t an ordinary cultural evening at the Diwan bookstore; people came in large numbers, and the shop has hardly…

Born in Canada in 1922, and dubbed "the pioneer of Arabic-to-English translation of our time" by literary icon and critic…

American writer/photographer Michael Luongo’s latest book, "Gay Travels in the Muslim World," a compilation of personal stories by Muslim and…

Publishing giant Al-Shorouk paid tribute on Monday to 86-year-old veteran journalist and media icon Mohammed Hassanein Heikal--known for his Nasser-era…