contemporary Egyptian literature

“To pick my name... I was told my father opened a random page in the holy Koran and moved his…

If you piled up all the books that feature one-dimensional Islamist characters, you would have a veritable mountain of thrillers,…

"We are a generation without literary masters," is author Mohamed Hafez Ragab’s most famous quote, for which he was equally…

A little bit of DIY spirit is making an appearance on the shelves of Cairo’s bookstores. Slim volumes of English…

Shamei Asaad is neither a Coptic intellectual nor an activist. He is a Christian engineer who grew up in a…

Marriage is no easy ride--this is May Taher’s message in her latest book, “When the Honeymoon is Over.” The collection…

A few weeks ago, up-and-coming writer Omnia Fawzy celebrated the launch of her first book, Etgawezni, Shokran (‘Marry Me, Thank…