Books

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Writer Soad Suleiman, who won the Juan Carlos Spanish award for short stories, said the prize was a surprise to…

Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling on Monday praised the casting of a black actress to play the wizard's sidekick Hermione…