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This year, Tunis lit the candle for UNESCO's World Book Day. Five days before the annual UNESCO-sponsored World Book and…

 

US Ambassador to Egypt Anne Patterson visited the National Library and Archives of Egypt (Dar al-Kotob) on Wednesday to see…

Egyptian novelist and ex-diplomat, Ezzedine Choukri Fishere, seems to be taking his literary career to new heights with his latest…

Ali Bader’s “The Tobacco Keeper” is a complex, emotionally charged novel of masks and shifting identities. It encompasses eighty years,…

  “The Fox Hotel” is a great title for a children’s book, implying all sorts of amusing possibilities. Is it…

  There are good reasons why it is hard to assemble a credible anthology of African short stories. There are…

During a brief visit to the 30th Sharjah International Book Fair, acclaimed Egyptian novelist Ahdaf Soueif gave a first public…

In the US and UK, the word “translation” is often an instant buzz-kill for publishers. Most consider translation synonymous with…

Not so long ago, the space now colorfully occupied by the new Alexandrian cultural center Al-Cabina was a dump so…