Egypt lost Sunday a towering figure of culture writing — one who touched generations of artists and journalists
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The memoir exposed the alleged role of Pakistan's former spy chief Shuja Pasha in quashing a murder trial against the author
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The memoir includes descriptions of how a 2014 motorcycle accident left him in a coma with a dozen broken bones
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Director Ali Badrakhan, critic El-Taher Makki, cinematographer Tarek El-Telmissany, and aesthetics professor Shaker Abdel-Hamid are among the winners of Egypt's highest state awards in the arts and literature
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Goytisolo died at his home in Marrakech, Morocco, on Sunday, according to his literary agency Carmen Balcells
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This piece, originally published in 2012, takes a glimpse into his life as one of the greatest to ever work in the field of Arabic literature
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Denys Johnson-Davies has translated numerous works by the renowned Egyptian novelists
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On the 69th anniversary of the 1948 Palestinian 'Nakba', Ahram Online republishes a review of of Salman Abu Sitta's Mapping My Return: A Palestinian Memoir, Cairo: AUC Press, 2016. pp318
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The book describes the events that led to the Syrian uprising of 2011, and the metamorphosis of the popular revolution into a regional war
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The Israeli occupation regime subjects Palestinians to daily suffering, the full tenor of which can only be experienced firsthand
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Stein apparently killed herself by jumping from the penthouse floor of a building in upper Manhattan on Sunday
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Amr Shaarawi's debut novel follows the troubled fortunes of a former army officer from Ahmed Orabi's defeated army – tackling the themes of romance, revolution and national sovereignty
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Sheryl Sandberg's book "Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy," chronicles the devastating loss, her grief and how she emerged from it with a new perspective on life
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Robert M. Pirsig, whose philosophical novel "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" became a million-selling classic and cultural touchstone after more than 100 publishers turned it down, died Monday at age 88.
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