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It has been a few months since author and food blogger Heba Abdel-Alim celebrated the launch of her first novel, El-Hayat Le-Serial Maha Tawfik (The Secret Life of Maha Tawfik).  (more...)

Al-Moussiqa Walgheina’ fi Felestine Qabl 1948 Wabaadaha (Music and Songs in Palestine Before and After 1948) is a book that is thoroughly about art as it is fully about politics.  (more...)

In his novel Al-Hay Al-Sabie (Neighbourhood Seven), the writer Naïm Sabry tells the story of a group of friends who left Egypt for Libya after the debacle of 1967. Five years later, they return to discover that nothing is as before.  (more...)

Al-Dawah Al-Ismailia fi Masr (The Ismaili Sect in Egypt) offers a comprehensive understanding of one of the most controversial orders in Shia Islam that gained attention this month with the screening of the soap opera Al-Hashashin (The Assassins).  (more...)

Moussem Ketabet Al-Banat – Waportraihat Okhra (A Season for Girls’ Writing – and Other Portraits) offers an insight into the early chapters of some of today’s prominent Egyptian and other Arab women writers.  (more...)

Earlier this year at the Cairo International Book Fair, Basma Abdel-Aziz, a psychiatrist by profession and author by dedication, published an over 200-page volume collecting her weekly articles in Al-Shorouk.   (more...)

At an event at the Alexandrian El-Sied Club, Al Ahram Managing Editor Tarek Ismail unveiled his fourth publication, a book titled "Occupy Minds."   (more...)

Egypt celebrated, throughout February, the legacy of the extraordinary musical career of Oum Kolthoum, the ultimate diva of Egyptian and Arab singing during the entire 20th century.   (more...)

Waksat Al-Shaweesh (The Sergeant’s Fiasco), Kamal Ruhayyim, Al-Shorouk Publishing, Cairo, 2023, pp.147  (more...)

Egyptian poet Bakhit Bayoumi died early Tuesday morning at the age of 84.  (more...)