Egyptian literature

Fathy Abdel Wahab, head of the cultural development fund, announced that the Naguib Mahfouz museum at the Muhammed Bek Abu…

If you’ve ever watched Ibrahim Eissa’s political talk show on television, then you would know what to expect from his…

“Toya,” one of the three Egyptian novels on the 2013 International Prize for Arab Fiction long list, is a feel…

Egyptian novelist Mohamed Rabie comes off very shy compared to the daring topics he delves into in “The Year of…

Kareem al-Sayyad, a 31-year old Egyptian writer, recently announced his retirement through a Facebook event, saying that he would devote…

The feeling author Muhammed Aladdin offers his readers in his latest collection of 23 short stories, “The Small and the…

“He who passes place and time lightly, Doesn’t let place enslave him, or time waste him” (From “The Beauty of…

  Ahdaf Soueif’s “Cairo: My City, Our Revolution” is an addition to the blossoming genre of “revolution diary” literature. It…

Egyptian novelist Bahaa Taher made headlines last year when he filed a suit against the American University in Cairo (AUC)…

Yusuf al-Qa'id's acclaimed novel, “War in the Land of Egypt,” was set during the brief October 1973 war and published…