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The Scent of Marie-Claire is one of the latest publications from the AUC Press and Habib Selmi’s first work to…

Spoken from the Heart by Laura Bush (Scribner, 2010)Close to a year and a half since her husband finished two…

Celebrated oriental literary compilation "One thousand and One Nights" (Alf Leila wa Leila) has ignited controversy once more this week.…

A second collection of 17 poems by Egyptian colloquial poet Abdel Rahim Youssef has been published under the title Qetta…

There are 74 Sufi orders in Egypt. Al-Masry Al-Youm reviews some of the founders of Sufism in Egypt.Abul Hassan al-Shazli:

In Hakaza Takalam Ibn Arabi (That's How Ibn Arabi Spoke, Al-Markaz Al-Thaqafi Al-Arabi, 2004) Nasr Hamid Abu Zeid writes,"It's difficult…

In the 43 paintings presented in Wageeh Wahba's latest exhibition, which opened last Sunday at the Ebdaa Gallery in Zamalek,…

Although Qahwat Ali Malek (Ali Malek Cafe, Sharqiat 2009) is Megahed el-Tayyeb's first book, the writer has adequately demonstrated remarkable…

 The first impression that one has upon entering the Cairo Atelier is misleading. Small groups of artists and intellectuals sit…