Books

Two young Egyptian authors have made the shortlist for the 2011 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF), popularly known as…

The rich ambiguity and artistry of contemporary Polish cinema--Roman Polański, Krzysztof Kieślowski—is mostly ignored in “Born of the Sea,” the…

Set in a nameless Egyptian city in the early 1960s, “The Jokers” (NYRB 2010) is a ruthless send-up of power, corruption…

The Fond Mercator, a renowned Belgium publishing house specializing in art books, has recently published “Heliopolis,” a 240-page richly illustrated…

The Egyptian publishing house Dar Al Shorouk celebrated the launch of a joint venture on Tuesday.Shorouk-Penguin will publish Arabic works…

A few weeks ago, up-and-coming writer Omnia Fawzy celebrated the launch of her first book, Etgawezni, Shokran (‘Marry Me, Thank…

Egyptian publishing house Dar Al Shorouk together with UK publisher the Penguin Group will launch a major joint project on…

In Mahmoud Darwish’s Journal of an Ordinary Grief--published in 1973 as Yawmiyyat al-Huzn al-'Adi and now available in English translation--the…

“Our society annihilates us in a thousand ways on a daily basis, so we learn gradually how to get our…

Etgawezni Shokran (Marry Me…Thank you); a short book by Omnia Fawzy was launched on 4 November with a  book signing…