Books

October 10, 2016

Award-winning photographer’s powerful story will soon become a Hollywood film

MacArthur fellow. Pulitzer Prize winner. Hostage. Now Lynsey Addario is going to be Jennifer Lawrence, or rather Jennifer Lawrence is…

September 28, 2016

It used to be that sex and offensive language were the most frequently cited reasons for attempts to remove books…

September 22, 2016

Former Al-Jazeera journalist Mohamed Fahmy, who was arrested in 2013 and spent more than 400 days behind bars, is publishing…

April 3, 2016

The Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot announced the recent printing of Alaa al-Aswany's "The Yacoubian Building" in Hebrew. The celebrated novel,…

February 21, 2016

Authors are planning to “burn” their literary works in protest at the two-year jail sentence handed to author Ahmed Naji…

February 19, 2016

Writer Alaa al-Deeb passed away in Maadi Military Hospital on Thursday evening at the age of 77. The funeral will be…

February 5, 2016

New research out of the UK has found yet another benefit of picking up a good book, with avid readers…

January 26, 2016

The 2016 Cairo International Book Fair is set to begin on January 27 and run until February 10 under the…

January 13, 2016

A love story between an Israeli Jew and a Palestinian Muslim has become an unlikely bestseller, after Israel's education ministry…

January 6, 2016

Harper Lee's second novel "Go Set a Watchman" topped the US bestseller list in 2015, selling 1.6 million copies more…