Okasha, a fertile author and a controversial former culture minister who pioneered many of Egypt's modern culture institutions during the Nasserite era, died at 91 on Monday
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The birthday of historical traveller Ibn Battuta is marked today by a Google Doodle on the search engine's homepage in Arab countries
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Revived left-wing magazine Al-Talia is aimed at newly-politicised youth
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Saied Tawfik named secretary-general of Egypt's Supreme Council for Culture following resignation last week of Camellia Sobhy
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State-owned National Centre for Translation censors book criticising religion; critics fear growing attacks on freedom of expression
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Exponential demographic growth is something Egypt can no longer afford, strategically and literally, says former post-revolution finance minister
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A new book profiles 37 of the late Muammar Gaddafi's closest allies, told from the personal experience of a man who spent nearly four decades inside the regime
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Novelist sacked from position as head of manuscripts centre for publishing newspaper article accusing library's director of corruption
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Writers from the ‘borders’ argue that the category of ‘border literature’ entrenches the very divisions that need to be bridged, with Cairo remaining the centre of Egypt’s cultural life
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Saleh’s ‘Walking on One Leg’ tries to uncover the social motivations that led Syrians to revolt
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The annual fair, which was cancelled in 2011 because of the uprising against Mubarak, will commemorate the first year of the January 25 Revolution
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The Tunisian programme will features poets, writers and singers from the revolutionary town of Sidi Bouzid
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Zein Abdel-Hadi, chief of the Egyptian National Library, calls for investigation into alleged smuggling of Mahfouz archive to London
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Culture minister confirms book fair's schedule, which will now open on 22 January and close during revolution's anniversary
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Activists and publishers are concerned that postponing the fair to February will impact the publishing industry
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Of the twenty truckloads of manuscripts rescued from the burnt out Scientific Institute, only one quarter were in a state to be restored, including eight of the 24 volumes of the historic text
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Library/archives director Abdel Wahed El-Nabawy says he lacks materials needed to restore manuscripts damaged in last week's fire
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Experienced literature professor Camilia Sobhy, who received a French knighthood for Art and Culture, is to oversee the council's reshuffle
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