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Harper Lee’s new novel big as ‘Harry Potter’ in Amazon pre-orders
Art news
July 11, 2015
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
February 18, 2015
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
November 9, 2014
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
September 16, 2011
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
August 30, 2010
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
February 4, 2010
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
January 10, 2010
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
Books
November 21, 2009
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…