Books
Egypt’s ‘Poet of the Short Story’ dies at 75
July 16, 2012
Egypt’s ‘Poet of the Short Story’ dies at 75
Mohamed al-Bisatie was born on a night of rains, thunder and lightning near Lake Manzalah in Daqahlia Governorate. He arrived…
Omar Taher changes his tone in ‘The Qasr al-Aini Ambush’
July 12, 2012
Omar Taher changes his tone in ‘The Qasr al-Aini Ambush’
Renowned writer and TV presenter Omar Taher strikes again with his latest book, “Kameen al-Qasr al-Aini” (The Qasr al-Aini Ambush),…
Narrating an ongoing revolution: A Syrian novelist writes from the crossfire
July 8, 2012
Narrating an ongoing revolution: A Syrian novelist writes from the crossfire
Many have criticized the “hasty” Arabic literature that has emerged in the last 16 months, blossoming in both bookstores and…
A story of new writing
July 5, 2012
A story of new writing
The feeling author Muhammed Aladdin offers his readers in his latest collection of 23 short stories, “The Small and the…
Decentralizing Tahrir Square
July 3, 2012
Decentralizing Tahrir Square
In his 1970 Nobel lecture, Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn described art and literature as “the only substitute for what we…
Supreme Council of Culture announces winners of state awards
July 1, 2012
Supreme Council of Culture announces winners of state awards
The Supreme Council of Culture convened on Saturday to vote on winners of the annual State Cultural Awards.
Culture Palaces issue 5,000 copies of Hamdan’s ‘Personality of Egypt’
June 25, 2012
Culture Palaces issue 5,000 copies of Hamdan’s ‘Personality of Egypt’
The General Authority of Culture Palaces, headed by Poet Saad Abdel Rahman, will issue a popular edition of deceased Geographer…
Telling a Tehrani story
June 24, 2012
Telling a Tehrani story
"Zahra’s Paradise," a graphic novel released last September, was inspired by the energy and hope of the 2009 Iranian…
Copy, right?
June 21, 2012
Copy, right?
Copyright, as first envisioned, was a way to balance the rights of authors with the rights of their audiences.…
Lucid change
June 17, 2012
Lucid change
Books of every genre colored the library of novelist Alaa El Deeb, but what immediately caught my attention as…