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The Egyptian novelist and critic Edward Al-Kharrat died on Tuesday at the age 89 from complications due to pneumonia. Al-Kharrat…

She started sniffing glue at age six to ease the hunger of life in a Brazilian slum.

Author Ali Salem, a vocal supporter for the normalization of relations between Egypt and Israel, died at the age of…

Hamed Abdel Samad, 43, the German writer and history professor at the University Munich, who disappeared on Sunday for three days,…

In commemoration of Sudanese novelist and columnist Tayeb Salih’s death a year ago, the Supreme Council for Culture held a…

Novelist Hamdi Abu Golayyel hails from a Bedouin village in the Fayoum area of Middle Egypt. His ancestors settled there…

Jeffrey Herf, professor of modern European history at the University of Maryland, College Park, recently authored Nazi Propaganda for the…

Rasheed el-Enany is a professor of modern Arabic literature at the UK's prestigious University of Exeter. The author of several…

In a ceremony held at the American University in Cairo's (AUC) Oriental Hall on 11 December the AUC Press awarded…

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