Books

It seems like yesterday that women's erotica was something to be read in private under the sheets. But no more.…

The “Be changed and bring about change” festival, held at downtown Cairo’s Metropolis Theater, presented its final play, "The World…

It was sometime between the months of March and May 2002 when a curfew was imposed on Ramallah, making daily…

Since 17 April, some 2000 prisoners in Israeli jails embarked on an open-ended hunger strike to protest the conditions of…

Ghada Khalifa began as an amateur poet. “I first made an exhibition of my paintings. I wrote some text for…

Since the Institut d'Egypte burned down in December during clashes resulting from a sit-in by the cabinet being violently dispersed…

DOHA — In “Translation in and of the World,” a three-day-conference organized in Doha by the Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation, the…

Update: PalFest organizers were granted on Thursday afternoon travel permits by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to travel to Gaza…

Egypt was one of just 14 countries represented by submissions to this year's Caine Prize for African Writing, sometimes referred…

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