Books

2011 was a year when many books didn't get sufficient attention as publishing was disrupted in Egypt and elsewhere. Many…

The committee formed by the minister of culture to save historical manuscripts housed at the Egyptian Scientific Institute, which was…

Ezzat Amin's book “Party of the Couch: My Journey from the Couch to the Square” opens with the author describing…

The Dr. Sultan Al-Qasimi Center of Gulf Studies in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, has announced that it is preparing to…

 

Fighting broke out once again inside the Egyptian Scientific Institute on Monday, two days after the building was set on…

Egypt still has three first edition copies of Napoleon’s "Déscription de l'Egypte" (Description of Egypt) after one copy was damaged…

In solidarity with activist and blogger Alaa Abd El Fattah, who has been detained since October in relation to the…

The Sotheby's London auction house stopped the auction of a “highly significant” archive of materials by Egyptian Nobel Prize-winning writer…

For years, a complete translation of “The Cairo Trilogy,” Naguib Mahfouz's best-known work, “had been sitting in a closet at…