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  Chinese author Yan Lianke, whose works are banned in his heavily censored homeland, has urged world leaders not to…

  Egyptian lawyer Samir Sabry filed a complain on Tuesday to the Prosecutor General against acclaimed feminist author Nawal al-Saadawi,…

The renowned Egyptian author Ahmed Khaled Tawfik died on Monday at 55 after suffering from a long-term illness. He leaves…

Activist and writer Elie Wiesel, the World War Two death camp survivor who won a Nobel Peace Prize for becoming…

Authors are planning to “burn” their literary works in protest at the two-year jail sentence handed to author Ahmed Naji…

Prominent translator, art critic and leftist figure Khalil Kalfat passed away on Monday, at the age of 74. Born in 1941…

Bestselling Swedish crime writer Henning Mankel, whose most famous creation was the detective Kurt Wallander, died overnight at the age…

Author Ali Salem, a vocal supporter for the normalization of relations between Egypt and Israel, died at the age of…

Renowned Egyptian scholar Youssef Ziedan has lambasted the self-proclaimed “Islamic State” in Syria for beheading Syria's eldery former chief of…

Last November, renowned author Mohamed Nagy left our world at 67, just as quietly as innovators do while we are…