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  The Cairo International Book Fair’s 50th edition, which started January 23 and runs until 5 February, offers you fantastic…

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

Sixty years after the 1952 revolution, the legacy of both President Gamal Abdel Nasser and his regime remain fraught territory.…

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

Tarek Eltayeb’s “The Palm House” has the beginnings of a strong and important novel. For the first 160 pages, the…

The spark at the center of Hassouna Mosbahi’s short novel, “A Tunisian Tale,” is a human immolation. As in the…

Throughout Egypt’s history, access to water has been essential to the development of its cities and towns. It is no…

For years, a complete translation of “The Cairo Trilogy,” Naguib Mahfouz's best-known work, “had been sitting in a closet at…

This year’s Naguib Mahfouz Medal awards ceremony was markedly different from the previous 14. Some of the surprises at the…