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Novelist and essayist Ahdaf Soueif is commonly known as the Egyptian author who writes in English. Curiosities about being a…

Lamh el-Basar (The Glimpse, 2009), Youssef Hisham's first feature film was shown Tuesday at El-Gomhurriya theater as part of Egypt's…

Screened on Tuesday 27 April, part of Egypt's 16th National Film Festival in Cairo, "Rabei' 89" (Spring 89, 2009), the…

Youssef Hesham stands out as a promising young director with an natural talent and a tendency to raise questions rather…

Zahrat al-Bustan (The Garden Flower, Merit 2010), by Khaled Ismail, the most prodigious writer of his generation, shares its name…

Etr Qadeem (An Old Scent) is novelist Gar el-Nabi el-Helw's tenth book. Melancholic and nostalgic, this novel touches upon the…

Ibrahim El Abyad--Ahmed Sakka’s latest action/violence flick--has rendered strong but pretty uniform reactions.

The 16th annual National Film Festival commenced on 23 April at the Cairo Opera Opera House, showcasing the past year's…

Over the past 30 years, American novelist Nelson DeMille has written 15 novels all of which were best sellers and…

In his seminal work Madness Explained, Richard Bentall suggests that through studying serious mental illness, namely psychosis, one taps into…