Books

 

This month several cultural centers across the seaside city of Alexandria are commemorating the first anniversary of the death of…

NEW YORK--Eight year-old Mustafa Akyol was looking at a book in his grandfather's library when he saw something that shocked…

The launch of the “Autostrade” graphic novel collection was markedly different from the generally sober unveiling of an Egyptian novel.…

Last month, two major bookstores shut down in Oman, and a few months earlier two Dubai bookshops closed their doors…

"We are a generation without literary masters," is author Mohamed Hafez Ragab’s most famous quote, for which he was equally…

Egyptian schoolchildren worked especially hard this year. Now that it’s summer, they deserve to relax and have fun. But that…

“The issue is not about applying Shariah (Islamic jurisprudence), but is a matter of choice between a theocratic and a…

The annual AUC Press Book, Art, and Music Festival held Wednesday at the Cairo Opera House celebrated the 25 January…

Dar al-Kotob, the Egyptian National Library, is sometimes lost in the shadow of the National Archives, or forgotten behind the…