Naguib Mahfouz

If you piled up all the books that feature one-dimensional Islamist characters, you would have a veritable mountain of thrillers,…

“They are our future leaders and with their passion, talent and hard work, this country shall see the light of…

"We are a generation without literary masters," is author Mohamed Hafez Ragab’s most famous quote, for which he was equally…

This year’s International Forum for the Arab Novel, the fifth in Cairo, asked as its central question, “The Arab Novel:…

On Saturday, 11 December—the date of Naguib Mahfouz’s would-be 99th birthday—writers, publishers, critics, and translators braved sandstorms and rain to…

With the aim to revive storytelling culture in Egypt, Abeer Soliman entertained her audience with her reinterpretation of Naguib Mahfouz’s…

Ramadan is a time of fasting, self-restraint, and good deeds. It is also an occasion for storytelling, either in celebration…

To celebrate the birthday of world-acclaimed Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz, the famous search engine Google inserted a picture of the…

Yesterday, Syrian writer Khalil Sweileh received the 14th Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature for his novel Warraq al-Hubb (The Scribe…