Books

There is, perhaps, an upside to novelists laboring in relative obscurity. While a recent Christian-Muslim unity concert in Alexandria was…

Shamei Asaad is neither a Coptic intellectual nor an activist. He is a Christian engineer who grew up in a…

"Aalashan el-Sennara Teghmez" (How to Get Hitched) is a duo of pocket self-help guides (one for men and one for…

A coffee table book,  “L’Egypte d’Antan en Couleurs” (Yesterday’s Egypt in Color) is a collaboration between Robert Solé, a major…

“Moqtanayat Wust el-Balad” (Downtown Collection) by Mekkawi Said. This collection of short stories from the award-winning author of “Swan song”…

In the mid 1940s, when prominent (though untalented) Egyptian actor Anwar Wagdy openly bragged to journalists about the famous actresses…

At the 2010 Naguib Mahfouz Medal ceremony, AUC Press Director Mark Linz produced a freshly printed copy of Amina Zaydan’s…

Marriage is no easy ride--this is May Taher’s message in her latest book, “When the Honeymoon is Over.” The collection…

This year’s International Forum for the Arab Novel, the fifth in Cairo, asked as its central question, “The Arab Novel:…

Libyan novelist Ibrahim al-Kouny, born in Ghadames, Libya in 1948, received on Wednesday the 2010 Arab Novel award from the…