Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
2/5/2021 1:47:00 PM
Dina Heshmat, Egypt 1919: The Revolution in Literature and Cinema, Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univeristy Press, 2020. pp248
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
1/29/2021 12:12:00 PM
Two intriguing new volumes have been added to the Library of Arabic Literature of classical Arabic literary works in English translation
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Books
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12/24/2020 6:21:42 PM
In an intense and small book, Nora Naguie explores the contradictions some women confront in motherhood
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
12/20/2020 6:16:54 PM
Personal experience leaves Youssef Rakha feeling old
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Books
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11/29/2020 7:35:42 PM
Reem Bassiouney in her latest historical novel has produced another pioneering female character struggling with the strictures of her times, reflecting the late 19th century experience in Egypt
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Books
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11/29/2020 6:42:45 PM
Writer Sayed Mahmoud talks about his recently issued title “Mahmoud Darwich in Egypt: A text unknown”
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Life & Style
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City Lights
10/18/2020 5:47:41 PM
Minister González Laya expressed happiness at the great interest of Egyptian students for learning the Spanish language and its literature
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Books
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10/15/2020 5:37:53 PM
While showing some promise, Ahmed Helmy’s first book of short stories is mired in confusion
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Books
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10/15/2020 1:41:23 PM
Publisher Sherif Bakr talks about 'Arab Voices', a pioneering project to offer contemporary titles of Arab writers for the translation interest of Frankfurt Book Fair audiences
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Books
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News
10/8/2020 3:25:06 PM
A list of the women who have won the prestigious honour since it was first awarded in 1901.
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Books
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News
10/8/2020 2:00:00 PM
Nobel Prize in Literature winner, Louis Glück describes the moment she heard that she had won the prestigious Nobel Prize in Literature
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Books
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10/8/2020 1:06:34 PM
Louise Glück made her debut in 1968 with ‘Firstborn’, and was soon acclaimed as one of the most prominent poets in American contemporary literature
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Books
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9/30/2020 5:01:01 PM
Haggag Addoul’s latest novel is one that positions him squarely as one of the most remarkable of Egypt’s present-day writers
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Books
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9/17/2020 9:21:26 PM
Desert literature is an apt description of Bosahab Ahl Aala’s novel: barren, arduous and of little interest
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Books
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9/10/2020 1:35:54 PM
The announcement of the winner Wednesday, 9 September, coincides with the 9th anniversary of the death of the iconic Egyptian writer
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Books
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Reviews
9/2/2020 6:01:48 PM
Shady Lewis has produced a novel with considerable suspense as he reviews the social and cultural history of Egypt’s Copts through the fortunes of one family
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Books
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Reviews
7/27/2020 4:32:39 PM
In a vibrant and thought-provoking historical novel, Ahmed Gad El-Karim revives to memory one of Egypt’s long-forgotten heroes of the national struggle
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Books
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News
7/18/2020 2:35:44 PM
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Books
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7/13/2020 9:13:33 AM
The 1919 anti-colonial revolution was a key moment in modern Egyptian history and a defining reference point in Egyptian culture across the subsequent century
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Books
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7/5/2020 6:53:00 PM
Writer El-Saeed Saleh delves into the psychology of a woman who had to give up her daughter, and the latter’s struggle for the truth about her life
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