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Almost every reader on the planet is familiar in some way with the epic “1,001 Nights.” We know of Sultan…

The book about Iraq most well-known to English readers is perhaps Chris Kyle’s best-selling “American Sniper,” a memoir told from…

In the early morning hours of Saturday 9 February, the publishing world lost one of its great literary champions.

On Tuesday night, judges announced that Egyptian author Ezzat al-Kamhawi’s generational novel “Bayt al-Deeb” (“House of al-Deeb”) had won the…

The release of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) longlist was overshadowed Thursday by the previous day’s clashes outside…

UPDATE: In consideration of the events happening in Egypt, the British Council announces the postponement of the Edinburgh World Writers’…

Salman Rushdie is a name well-known to Arabic readers, although his fame doesn’t really come from his books. Instead, it…

The years I worked as a translator were some of the most frustrating of my career. I would often spend…

  When Egyptian author Ahmed Khaled Tawfik first launched his hit horror book series “Ma Waraa al-Tabee’a” (Beyond The Natural…

For Samia Mehrez, “Translating Egypt’s Revolution: The Language of Tahrir” is not a project that could be begun now. Most…