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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
9/16/2024 5:05:27 PM
Prominent columnists have resigned from the Jewish Chronicle newspaper over allegations that it published fabricated articles about the Israeli war on Gaza supporting Netanyahu's baseless claims regarding the Philadeplhi corridor.
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Books
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News
9/15/2024 6:38:28 PM
Novelist Elias Khoury, one of Lebanon's most renowned writers and a fervent advocate of the Palestinian cause, died on Sunday from illness aged 76, sources close to his family told AFP.
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Books
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News
9/4/2024 1:45:39 PM
The Writers’ Union of Africa, Asia, and Latin America (WUAALA) hosted a special event to commemorate the 125th birth anniversary of the renowned Iraqi poet Muhammad Mahdi Al-Jawahiri.
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Books
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Reviews
8/29/2024 9:45:38 PM
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.
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Books
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Reviews
8/21/2024 7:58:17 PM
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.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
8/13/2024 10:06:57 PM
The British writer P. H. Newby drew on his experiences in Egypt during World War II to found the Anglo-Egyptian comic novel, writes David Tresilian in an occasional series on books by visitors to Egypt.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
8/13/2024 6:10:05 PM
The internationally recognised Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis was an early critic of the Zionist project in Palestine, writes Samir Morcos
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World
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Africa
7/17/2024 4:26:10 PM
Writers Union of Asia, Africa, and Latin America (WUAALA) has celebrated the 90th birthday of the renowned Nigerian writer and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, through an initiative titled "100 Soyinka Days."
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
6/20/2024 7:05:03 PM
The Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF) mourned the Tunisian film critic and writer Khemais Khayati, 77, who passed away on Tuesday at the Saint Augustin clinic in Tunis.
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Books
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News
4/29/2024 2:02:11 PM
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.
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Books
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Reviews
4/20/2024 6:40:36 PM
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.
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Opinion
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4/15/2024 10:32:05 PM
Mohamed El-Tabei was a leading Egyptian political writer and a pioneer of the modern press in Egypt and the Arab world during the interwar period, who shaped Egyptians’ perception of the newly crowned King Farouk and helped galvanize generations of journalists.
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
4/1/2024 1:45:19 PM
The Egyptian-American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer Ramy Youssef called for a free Palestine in his eight-minute monologue on Saturday Night Live (SNL), which he hosted for the first time on 30 March.
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
3/30/2024 10:17:59 PM
Egyptian-American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer Ramy Youssef will host Saturday Night Live (SNL) for the first time on 30 March.
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Life & Style
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City Lights
3/18/2024 4:32:23 PM
The Afro-Asian Writers Union (AAWU) has launched the Edward El-Kharrat Prize for Literary Creativity in celebration of the Egyptian novelist and short story writer.
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Books
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Reviews
3/16/2024 2:47:22 PM
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.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Living
1/2/2024 9:26:37 PM
Personal-development writer Sherif Arafa shares tips on how to calm your mind and combat stress.
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Arts & Culture
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Music
12/28/2023 6:36:14 PM
Mbongeni Ngema, writer of the acclaimed musical "Sarafina" about student riots in apartheid Soweto, was killed in a car crash on Wednesday at the age of 68, his family announced.
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Books
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News
11/7/2023 5:46:58 PM
Writer and money management consultant Monika Halan offered golden advice to visitors at the Sharjah International Book Fair this week.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
11/5/2023 10:17:31 AM
A group of Jewish writers drafted a letter after seeing an old argument gain new power: the claim that critiquing Israel is antisemitic.
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