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Harper Lee’s new novel big as ‘Harry Potter’ in Amazon pre-orders
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Harper Lee’s new novel big as ‘Harry Potter’ in Amazon pre-orders

"Go Set a Watchman," the much-anticipated second novel by "To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper Lee, is the most pre-ordered…
Update: Egypt confiscates revolution-time graffiti book for “instigating revolt”
Egypt

Update: Egypt confiscates revolution-time graffiti book for “instigating revolt”

Egypt's customs services in Alexandria have seized 400 copies of  "Walls of Freedom", a book depicting Egypt's street graffitti art…
Student arrested for carrying George Orwell’s novel 1984
Egypt

Student arrested for carrying George Orwell’s novel 1984

11/09/2014Security services arrested a student in front of the main gate of Cairo University for carrying George Orwell's novel 1984,…
Adieu to Khairy Shalaby
Books

Adieu to Khairy Shalaby

Last Friday, 9 September, or the Friday of “Correcting the Path of the Revolution,” was a day full of events.…
The week in book reviews: Hearts of darkness
Books

The week in book reviews: Hearts of darkness

The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering by Melanie Thernstrom (Farrar,…
Security confiscates anti-Qadhafi novel
Egypt

Security confiscates anti-Qadhafi novel

Security authorities confiscated on Tuesday night a novel by a Nubian author Idris Ali that tackles social conditions in Libya…
Chasing the American dream, Arabian style
Books

Chasing the American dream, Arabian style

Fatima Abdullah has only 1001 nights until she dies. Nobody has told her that exactly; the slightly senile 85-year-old Lebanese…
Court upholds comic book ban, fines creator and publisher
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Court upholds comic book ban, fines creator and publisher

After more than four months of legal deliberations, the Qasr el-Nil Court of Misdemeanors issued today its verdict regarding the…
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