Two Washington Post reporters are working on a biography of George Floyd, from his family history in the tobacco fields of North Carolina to his murder last year in Minneapolis by a white police officer.

Nineteenth-century Egypt was a magnet for Victorian letter-writers, with some leaving important evidence of life in the country behind

'Useful Enemies: Islam and The Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750' provides a detailed history of European attitudes to Islam and the former Ottoman Empire

A novel by Egyptian writer Tawfik Al-Hakim is now available in the Penguin Classics series of world literary works in English translation

Since Covid-19 placed cultural activities strictly at arm’s length, let's explore the stay-at-home options

Though they have millions of readers worldwide, the Tintin books by the Belgian cartoon-book artist Hergé have had a mixed reception in Arabic

Asne Seierstad talks about Two Sisters, her international bestseller about two girls who emigrate from Somalia to Norway only to end up joining IS in Syria

This year marks the 48th round of one of the world's biggest book fairs

A new book highlighting the Karnak Cachette discovery by French archaeologist Georges Legrain was launched