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All night long
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All night long

For centuries, the tales recounted in One Thousand and One Arabian Nights have provided readers around the world with a…
Lucette Lagnado’s ‘Man in the White Sharkskin Suit’
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Lucette Lagnado’s ‘Man in the White Sharkskin Suit’

El-Ragol Zul Badla el-Baydaa el-Sharkskin, Waqaea Khoroug Aeila Yahodia Men Misr ('The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish…
Saint Theresa and Sleeping With Strangers
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Saint Theresa and Sleeping With Strangers

The American University in Cairo Press has recently published Saint Theresa and Sleeping with Strangers (2010) by Bahaa Abdelmegid.  Abdelmegid…
The Arabian Horses of Egypt: Celebrating beauty and grace
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The Arabian Horses of Egypt: Celebrating beauty and grace

Last Saturday in a lush garden just across el-Mansouriya road from the pyramids, a large crowd gathered to celebrate the…
Palestinian literature at al-Kotob Khan
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Palestinian literature at al-Kotob Khan

Palestinian authors Suad Amiry and Randa Abdel Fattah celebrated the launch of their latest books on 30 April at al-Kotob…
PalFest2010
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PalFest2010

On 1 May at 7:30 PM, novelists, poets, and scholars gathered together at the Palestinian National Theater in Jerusalem for…
Selmi’s latest: Boy meets girl, east meets west
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Selmi’s latest: Boy meets girl, east meets west

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

Signposts to Elsewhere (Jane Street Press, 2009) by Egyptian-Lebanese writer Yahia Lababidi, is a journey into the soul, life, and…
Drumbeat: Tales from the Gulf’s back end
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Drumbeat: Tales from the Gulf’s back end

There are over a quarter of a million Egyptian immigrants working in the United Arab Emirates today--or rather, that is…
IDSC: 88% of Egyptian families uninterested in reading
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IDSC: 88% of Egyptian families uninterested in reading

A report by the Egyptian Cabinet's Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC) revealed that 88 percent of Egyptian families are…
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