literature

We all learn about cities through fiction, from the experiences of the stories' narrators and protagonists. Even when we live…

The Supreme Council of Culture convened on Saturday to vote on winners of the annual State Cultural Awards.

“Give me verse like that, give me a poet like Abu Tayeb al-Mutanabbi, and I’ll go with you to the…

A few days ahead of the commemoration of the Nakba, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the artists and activists partaking in…

Ghada Khalifa began as an amateur poet. “I first made an exhibition of my paintings. I wrote some text for…

Update: PalFest organizers were granted on Thursday afternoon travel permits by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to travel to Gaza…

At this year’s Cairo International Book Fair, the most sought-after books were those about Arab revolutions. Titles about revolution, in…

The spark at the center of Hassouna Mosbahi’s short novel, “A Tunisian Tale,” is a human immolation. As in the…

The title of Bensalem Himmich's 2008 novel, "Haza al-Andalusi!" ("This Andalusian!"), is as subdued in Arabic as it is attention-grabbing…

In a world like the one we live in, it is difficult to find someone who will give credit to…