Books

After graduating from Alexandria University with a degree in English Literature, novelist and professor of sociolinguistics Reem Bassiouney completed her…

Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern Indiaby William Dalrymple (Alfred A. Knopf, 2010) Broadcaster and travel writer…

Doctors usually have a lot of interesting stories to tell about their patients. And when it comes to high profile…

Surrounded by piles of books shelved on wooden compartments, hardly ten people gathered in the cultural salon hosted by Alef…

The latest collection of short stories by Tareq Imam, A Tale of an Old Man who dies in the cities…

The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives by Gilbert Achcar (Metropolitan, 2010)

Faith and Power: Religion and Politics in the Middle East by Bernard Lewis (Oxford University Press, 2010) and Muhammad and…

From India which is "a great country" to Botswana where little Sylvia goes to a "rich people's school", and from…

Ahmed Mourad’s latest novel Torab el-Mas (Diamond’s Dust, Al-Shorouq, 2010) is already being printed in second edition. The author of…

Author of Egypt’s Culture Wars and AUC professor of Arabic literature Samia Mehrez celebrated the signing of her latest book,…