New never-before-seen handwritten memoirs by the only Arab Nobel laureate writer, Naguib Mahfouz (1911-2006), will be published in a new book, according to a statement by the late novelist’s daughter.
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The Sheikh Zayed Book Award (SZBA) announced that it has opened submissions for its 17th edition starting this June and that they will remain open till 1 October.
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Egypt's highest state awards in art, literature, and social sciences for 2022 were announced on 7 June, with writer Ibrahim Abdel-Meguied, director Dawood Abdel-Sayed, and late Iraq thinker Qais Azzawi winning the top honour, the Nile Award.
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With the passing of Iraq's renowned communist poet Muzzafar al-Nawab, who faced jail time and exile in the 1960s, a rich chapter of Iraqi poetry has come to an end.
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Bread on Uncle Milad’s Table by Libyan debut novelist Mohamed Alnaas was announced today as the winner of the 2022 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF).
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The Sheikh Zayed Book Award (SZBA) has announced the winners for its 16th edition across seven categories on Tuesday.
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The International Booker Prize announced on Thursday, the six books in contention for this year’s prize, which celebrates fiction from around the world, translated into English.
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The International Prize for Arabic Fiction revealed on Tuesday, its shortlisted novels for the 2022 Prize including six novels. All six authors in the shortlist have been shortlisted for the prize for the first time.
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Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna Rada), announced in the early hours of Friday that the Russian forces attacked Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology, which it said contains an Experimental nuclear reactor inside of it.
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Controversial Egyptian secular thinker and researcher in the history of religions, Sayyid El-Qimni, who rattled Islamists and gained both criticism and praise from academic scholars, died on Sunday at the age of 74.
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The winners of the 17th edition of Sawiris Cultural Awards were announced on Saturday in a ceremony at Egypt’s freshly inaugurated National Museum of Egyptian civilization.
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Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdallah Hamouk intends to resign “in the next few hours,” according to two source who spoke to SkyNewsArabia on Tuesday amid a dispute with the military.
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Egyptian historian Qassem Abdo Qassem, who spent his life researching Islamic and Medieval History and the Crusades, passed away on Sunday in Cairo at the age of 79.
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The six shortlisted novels explore life, memory, and trauma in the wake of various events and phenomena
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The fair is offering many incentives to publishers and exhibitors to participate in the fair, including offering them a 50 percent discount on their booth fees and bearing the cost of shipping their books on their behalf
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This year's edition features 1,218 participating Egyptian, Arab, and foreign publishers
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This year features a digital tickets platform, where visitors can book their tickets for free beforehand, to more evenly distribute the number of visitors allowed each day
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Saadi Youssef has published more than 40 collections of poetry, the most important of which are Qasai’d Mari’iyah (Visible Poems) published in 1969
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The winners were announced after a digital vote took place at the Cairo Opera House, with attendees adhering to social distancing measures
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The novel is set in Jordan and Moscow between 1947 and 2019 and tells the story of Ibrahim, a bookseller and voracious reader, who loses his shop and finds himself on the street
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