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At first glance, Gretchen McCullough and Mohamed Metwalli seem perfectly cast for their roles: she, the hard-working prose writer in…

Yusuf al-Qa'id's acclaimed novel, “War in the Land of Egypt,” was set during the brief October 1973 war and published…

On 24 September, Egyptian poets celebrated World Poetry Movement Day with recitations across Cairo, the most notable of which was…

Egyptian actress, writer and editor Wiam al-Tamami was awarded the second annual Harvill Secker Young Translators' Prize by the Britishing…

A few centuries back, before the spread of writing, an Egyptian narrator would gather people of all ages around him…

– “Palestine,” said Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury, “is my country of choice.” Under the banner of “Translating Palestine,” Khoury spoke…

  When the UK-based Literature Across Frontiers (LAF) visited Cairo this month, it was with the aim of speeding and…

“Araq Motaqati” (Irregular Insomnia) comes off as a literary experiment, an atypical collection of short stories. Recently published by Dar…

In Jabra Ibrahim Jabra’s largely escapist novel “The Ship,” written a few years after the Arab defeat of 1967, an…

Since February, publishers and booksellers have been trying to fill the hole left behind by the cancellation of the 43rd…