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Aug
29
Many would chant the word “victim” upon hearing the name Sylvia Plath — a writer, a poet, a mother, and a wife. She was a victim of an abusive husband, social pressures, suicide, and her “mind-forged manacles,” as William Blake would say.   (more...)

Aug
22
Mina Adel Gayed in his first novella Beit Al-Masakeen (House of the Poor) explores the Holy Family hideaway from the Romans in Minya Governorate during their journey, through the protagonist’s journey with his family.  (more...)

Aug
21
Prince Hassan bin Talal, former crown prince of Jordan and brother of Jordan's late king Hussein Ibn Talal, called for forging a new knowledge strategy.   (more...)

Aug
13
The Mexican embassy in Egypt unveiled the second edition of its translation competition dedicated to Mexican literature, in collaboration with the Egyptian Ministry of Culture.   (more...)

Jul
28
Milad Thawra (A Revolution Is Born), a classic on the 23 July Revolution, is being reprinted against the backdrop of continuous reassessment of what the day actually meant and why it came about.  (more...)

Jun
30
Ahmed Al-Morsi’s third novel “Gambling on the Honour of Lady Mitsi” is a historical novel that takes place during the 1920s in Cairo, mostly in the Heliopolis horse racing course.  (more...)

Jun
19
Al-Zahf Al-Mokadas (The Sacred March) of Sherif Younis is a concise and in-depth narrative on the creation of the republic in Egypt from 1952 and onwards.  (more...)

Jun
2
Yaomiat Tabib Sinawi – Al-Sanawat Al-Egaf wa Mehnat Al-Ehtelal (A Doctor from Sinai: Memoir – Tough Years under Crippling Occupation) is not just a memoir of a man who grew up in Sinai under the Israeli occupation that started in 1967, but a testimony for what Israeli occupation was like.  (more...)

May
13
History has been unethically manipulated to align with the Zionist narrative, both preceding and following the 1948 Palestinian Nakba, stated Atef Abu Seif, a Palestinian author and minister of culture, lamenting that insufficient efforts have been made to reverse this plight.   (more...)

May
5
In his novel Alam Yahoudah (The Passion of Judas), partially inspired by the biblical account of the disciple who gave away Jesus to the crucifixion, novelist Magued Wahib revisits and reconstructs the life and motives of the world’s most condemned traitor: Judas Iscariot.  (more...)

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