Further updates will be announced later through the Arabic Booker website
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The Department of Culture and Tourism in Abu Dhabi cited precautionary measure to protect public health, in its reasoning for delaying the fair
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The collection includes handwritten documents as well as the original translation of Mahfouz's novel Children of Gebelawy, which was published in 1970 in English
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Illustrated children’s books ‘My Little Cairo ABC’ and ‘Fos-hetna Fil Kahera’ will be launched in an event on Friday 7 February
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The shortlist for the IPAF’s 13th edition includes five male and one female authors, representing Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, and Algeria
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The Arab writers union concluded its meeting in Cairo with asserting the rights of Palestinians to have their own state with Jerusalem as its capital and condemned all forms of naturalizing of relations with Israel
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The fair will be open to the public on Thursday with a record number of 900 publishers
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As 2019 comes to a close, Ahram Online lists its top 10 books of the year
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The longlist includes 13 male and three female authors from nine countries, ranging in age from 34 to 75
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The prize, founded in 2013, is awarded by the Institute of the Arab World in Paris and the Jean-Luc Lagardère foundation
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Wadie Said will explore his father’s work through a retrospective look at several trips they took together to the Middle East
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Gresh will discuss the memoirs of his mentor Éric Rouleau in an event at the American University in Cairo on 16 October
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This is the seventh novel by the Cairo judge
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The Turkish writer gained huge popularity among the Arab readers after her hit novel The Forty Rules of Love was translated into Arabic
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Al-Mawt Amal Shaq (Death Is Hard Work), published originally by Dar Al-Ain in Cairo in 2016
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The shortlist of six books will be announced on Tuesday 3 September at a morning press conference. The shortlisted authors each receive £2,500 and a specially bound edition of their book
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The museum was inaugurated on Sunday, 13 years after the death of Mahfouz
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