Books

We all learn about cities through fiction, from the experiences of the stories' narrators and protagonists. Even when we live…

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

The imam who narrates Rasha al-Ameer’s “Judgment Day” is pulled in at least six different directions. The novel’s central character is…

Kareem al-Sayyad, a 31-year old Egyptian writer, recently announced his retirement through a Facebook event, saying that he would devote…

Mohamed al-Bisatie was born on a night of rains, thunder and lightning near Lake Manzalah in Daqahlia Governorate. He arrived…

Renowned writer and TV presenter Omar Taher strikes again with his latest book, “Kameen al-Qasr al-Aini” (The Qasr al-Aini Ambush),…

Many have criticized the “hasty” Arabic literature that has emerged in the last 16 months, blossoming in both bookstores and…

The feeling author Muhammed Aladdin offers his readers in his latest collection of 23 short stories, “The Small and the…

In his 1970 Nobel lecture, Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn described art and literature as “the only substitute for what we…

The Supreme Council of Culture convened on Saturday to vote on winners of the annual State Cultural Awards.