literature

Many Western novels about Egypt risk emphasizing common stereotypes. But British novelist Paul Sussman is an exception. Through several bestselling…

“I am an Egyptian citizen, I do not belong to any party, I don’t belong to [the formerly ruling] National…

The opening of the 2011 Palestine Festival of Literature, popularly known as PalFest, was overshadowed this year both by the…

Egyptian media figure Afaf Tabbalah recently won the Sheikh Zayed Children's Literature award.

Modern Egyptian feminism has taken many forms: religious and secular, public and private. One strand was born during the nationalist…

On 6 February, as Tahrir Square resonated with freedom chants and democracy demands, the French-Lebanese poet and novelist Andree Chedid…

1) Radwa Ashour's Specters, trans. Barbara Romaine Radwa Ashour's half-memoir, half-novel Specters, published in 1999, is about many people, places…

There is, perhaps, an upside to novelists laboring in relative obscurity. While a recent Christian-Muslim unity concert in Alexandria was…

Sunday marked the opening of the fifth International Forum for Arab Novel Creativity in Cairo, held at the Cairo Opera…

French scholar and renowned translator of Arabic literature Richard Jaquemond spoke on Wednesday night at the American University in Cairo…