Egyptian publishers potentially had much to mourn after the Publishers Association announced on Wednesday that the 43rd Cairo International Book Fair would be indefinitely suspended. Yet it has been difficult to find a glum face, and many publishers (...)
Children's books with a strong moral message are usually the least popular with readers. “Give the dough to baker,” one insists. “Clean your room,” another scolds. These books are more like medicine than entertainment, and children can gulp them (...)
In Mahmoud Darwish's Journal of an Ordinary Grief--published in 1973 as Yawmiyyat al-Huzn al-'Adi and now available in English translation--the narrator shapes his personal, Palestinian memories against the insistent push of Israeli and (...)