Books

This year’s Naguib Mahfouz Medal awards ceremony was markedly different from the previous 14. Some of the surprises at the…

Egyptian novelist and ex-diplomat, Ezzedine Choukri Fishere, seems to be taking his literary career to new heights with his latest…

The Sotheby's London auction house announced Thursday that it will offer a major cache of manuscripts by Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian…

Three years ago, several groups of translators working in the literary, journalistic and business fields took the first step to…

Ali Bader’s “The Tobacco Keeper” is a complex, emotionally charged novel of masks and shifting identities. It encompasses eighty years,…

  “The Fox Hotel” is a great title for a children’s book, implying all sorts of amusing possibilities. Is it…

  There are good reasons why it is hard to assemble a credible anthology of African short stories. There are…

During a brief visit to the 30th Sharjah International Book Fair, acclaimed Egyptian novelist Ahdaf Soueif gave a first public…

A man sits outdoors playing the rebab, singing a tale, and people start gathering around him, amused. Such is the…

In the US and UK, the word “translation” is often an instant buzz-kill for publishers. Most consider translation synonymous with…