book reviews

The key to choosing the right book for summer is throwing out the notion that with summer comes rubbish reads,…

The second edition of Palestinian writer Rabai al-Madhoun's novel Al-Sayyeda Min Tal Abib (The Lady from Tel Aviv) was published…

The Dead Republic by Roddy Doyle (Viking, 2010)  

The new collection of stories by novelist Mohamed el-Mansi Qandil, titled Ashaa Berefqat Aisha (A Dinner with Aisha) consists of…

A second collection of 17 poems by Egyptian colloquial poet Abdel Rahim Youssef has been published under the title Qetta…

Spoken from the Heart by Laura Bush (Scribner, 2010)Close to a year and a half since her husband finished two…

Although Qahwat Ali Malek (Ali Malek Cafe, Sharqiat 2009) is Megahed el-Tayyeb's first book, the writer has adequately demonstrated remarkable…

El-Zakhaer series has recently published a popular edition of Sidi Ali Bin Sodon el-Beshbeghawi's book Nuzhat al-Nufus wa Mudhik al-Abuus…

Zahrat al-Bustan (The Garden Flower, Merit 2010), by Khaled Ismail, the most prodigious writer of his generation, shares its name…

A look at this week’s books of interest, reviewed around the world:Oprah by Kitty Kelley (Crown Publishers, 2010).