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Author Kwame Alexander to launch new trilogy this fall

A trilogy by award-winning children's author Kwame Alexander that tells the saga of an African family begins this fall with 'The Door of No Return.''

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Author Kwame Alexander to launch new trilogy this fall

Book Review: Evil is all around in Lucifer’s Spirit

Roh Lucifer (“Lucifer’s Spirit”), by Alice Gaber, Cairo: Al-Nassim Publishing, 2021. Short stories are ...

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2021 Yearender: A renewed interest in Naguib Mahfouz on his 110th birth anniversary

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Archivist of the dream

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Book Review: The Indian Tea Passage

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bell hooks, groundbreaking black feminist thinker, dies at 69

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Book Review: From a life of suffering to winning the Nobel Prize

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Book Review: A Spy in Ka'aba - An ambivalent view of Abdallah Burckhardt

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Why Africa is dominating literary prizes in 2021

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Book Review: Intertwining fiction and reality

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Ahead of the Cairo International Film Festival: Egyptian cinema at a glance

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Book Review: Our Oppressors, will there be justice?

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INTERVIEW: Mohamed Afifi challenges historical narratives in new novel

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Excerpts from the novel Ya'coub by Mohamed Afifi

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INTERVIEW: Mahmoud AbdelShakour on the elusive questions of love

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Excerpts from Mahmoud AbdelShakour's first novel ‘Habiba as Recollected by Nadim‘

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Book Review: Saida... Slavery... Middle Eastern style

News

Winners of 17th Sawiris Cultural Awards announced

The winners of the 17th edition of Sawiris Cultural Awards were announced on Saturday in a ceremony at Egypt’s freshly inaugurated National Museum of Egyptian civilization, a remarkable change of venue for the awards, which were usually held at the 1,300-seat main hall of the Opera House.

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Poet Maya Angelou becomes first Black woman to appear on US coin

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Renowned Arabic Literature professor Gaber Asfour passes away at the age of 77

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Obituary: Joan Didion, a peerless clear-eyed critic of turbulent times

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Jonathan D. Spence, popular China scholar, dead at age 85

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Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen has book deal

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Czech travel writer Miroslav Zikmund dies at 102

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Art critic Dave Hickey, known for book 'Air Guitar', dies

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Lebanese publisher Dar Al Jadeed awarded the 2021 IPA Prix Voltaire

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Book Alert: Book signing for 'Ayahuasca' by Dina Samak

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Duchess Meghan apologizes to court for forgetting book discussions

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Sharjah International Book Fair 2021 is the World's Largest Publishing Event of the Year

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Adaptation: The journey from literature to film

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Tanzanian Abdulrazak Gurnah awarded Nobel literature prize

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INTERVIEW: Salwa El-Hamamsy on the unexplored side of literature

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Medieval and Islamic historian Qassem Abdo Qassem passes away at 79

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Shortlist for Booker Prize for Fiction revealed

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