Books

In Abla al-Roweiny’s first editorial in Akhbar al-Adab, Egypt’s weekly literary journal, she writes about a different “space” that is…

At a mid-May symposium at the American University in Cairo, students from “Translating the Revolution” class of Samia Mehrez -…

Last March, the New York based OR Books published the first Twitter book ever, Tweets from Tahrir: Egypt’s revolution as…

Renowned satirical writer, Omar Taher, published his latest book Berma Yoqabel Rayya we Sekina (Berma Meets Rayya and Sekina) earlier…

Fadhil al-Azzawi’s The Traveler and the Innkeeper (American University Press, 2011, trans William M. Hutchins) treads much the same ground…

Discussions of Muslim-Coptic relations have been riding the post-25 January swing of hope, denial and despair. In one moment, Muslims…

Hisham Matar’s Anatomy of a Disappearance has an air of tea-service fragility. The Libyan-British author’s second novel - following his…

“I am an Egyptian citizen, I do not belong to any party, I don’t belong to [the formerly ruling] National…

Since the revolution, many books have been published on former President Hosni Mubarak, his son Gamal, and their entourage. Everyday,…

Balsam al-Saad took a moment on 1 May to assess a momentous first year at Cairo’s only children’s bookstore, and…