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DUBAI — Amid the fast paced changes the city continues to undergo — sand gradually buried beneath pavement, buildings rapidly…

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’…

Renowned Qatari poet Mohamed Bin al-Dheeb al-Ajami was sentenced by the Qatari State Security Court to life in prison on…

Egyptian novelist Mohamed Rabie comes off very shy compared to the daring topics he delves into in “The Year of…

It was not Amir Tag Elsir’s plan to write a novel within a novel. When he first sat down to…

The following are segments from a longer poem — “Moons and Donkeys" — which I wrote after I spent a…

In the second part of our review of the Institut d’Egypte, Egypt Independent is focusing on the restoration of its…

Almost a year after it was set ablaze during clashes nearby, the Institut d’Egypte has reopened its doors boasting the…