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In his third novel Brief History of Genesis and East of Cairo, Shady Lewis attempts to meld domestic violence within a Coptic family with the biblical story of Genesis and the history of Ain Shams district in east Cairo.  (more...)

Warathit Aal Al-Shaikh (The Sheikhs' Inheritors) is not only a novel but also a family saga written by Ahmed Al-Qarmalawi, published by Al-Dar Al-Arabiya Lil-Kitab in 2020.   (more...)

In perhaps the first example of a novel written by an Arab political prisoner during his incarceration, current Hamas Chief Yahya Sinwar’s Thorn and Clove is a semi-autobiographical novel that tells the history of the Gaza Strip.  (more...)

With more than 3.5 million visitors in the past nine days, the 2024 Cairo International Book Fair is poised to set a record-breaking attendance by its conclusion on Tuesday.   (more...)

On the occasion of the 55th Cairo International Book Fair (CIBF), Ahram Online runs a sequel of interviews with authors whose books are making it to the stand this year. We talked with novelist Mohamed Abdel-Gawad.  (more...)

On the occasion of the 55th Cairo International Book Fair, Ahram Online offers its selected list of the best books, fiction and nonfiction, published in 2023.   (more...)

Ahram Online spoke with acclaimed Bangladeshi poet Aminur Rahman during his visit to Egypt as a guest of the Cairo International Book Fair.  (more...)

On the occasion of the 55th Cairo International Book Fair, Ahram Online offers its selected list of the best books – fiction and nonfiction – published in 2023, among which is Orhan Pamuk’s “Nights of Plague” (Laiali Al-Waba in Arabic).   (more...)

On the occasion of the 55th Cairo International Book Fair, Ahram Online offers its selected list of the best books, fiction and non-fiction, published in 2023.  (more...)

On the occasion of the 55th Cairo International Book Fair (CIBF), Ahram Online (AO) runs a sequel of interviews with authors whose books are making it to the stand this year, among whom is Mina Adel Gayed.   (more...)