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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...)

Apr
29
Palestinian writer Basim Khandaqji, jailed 20 years ago in Israel, won a prestigious prize for Arabic fiction on Sunday for his novel A Mask, the Colour of the Sky.  (more...)

Apr
21
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...)

Apr
21
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...)

Apr
20
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...)

Mar
31
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...)

Mar
16
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...)

Mar
8
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...)

Mar
8
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...)

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