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Love is a subject that has animated great poetry, novels and memoirs for a thousand years and more. Hate has…

“Of the martyrs of the revolution we lost before we even thought of a revolution,” wrote a tweep on her…

What may be harder than making a revolution is writing a good novel about it. Ezzedine Choukri Fishere, a political…

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

  Graphic novels are “cheap, fast, and accessible,” according to Amir, author of “Zahra’s Paradise,” (he has chosen, along with his illustrator…

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

Robert Wedderburn’s mother was a slave who was sold by Wedderburn’s father, a Scottish plantation owner, when she was five…

Chinese writer Mo Yan won the 2012 Nobel prize for literature on Thursday for works which combine "hallucinatory realism" with…

Concerned about copyrights and regulating publishing, the Egyptian Publishers Association has put together a document envisioned to be a reference…

Salman Rushdie believes literature has lost much of its influence in the West, and movie stars like George Clooney and…