Al-Yahood Al-Misryoon wa Al-Haraka Al-Suhyuniyya (“Egyptian Jews and the Zionist Movement”), by Awatef Abdel-Rahman, Cair: Dar Al-Hilal – Al-Hilal book series, 2017. pp. 256.
Abdel-Rahman's book is effectively two different but related books; the (...)
Al-Tawa'if Al-Agnabiyya fi Misr – Al-Bohra Namozagan (The Foreign Sects in Egypt – Al-Bohra as a case study) by Dr. Soad Othman, the General Egyptian Book Organization, Popular Culture Series, Cairo 2017. pp.204
After more than forty years of (...)
Ma b'ad Al-Hazima Al-'Askaryyah li-Tanzeem Daesh – Afaq wa Tahadyyat (After the Military Defeat of the IS Organisation – Horizons and Challenges) by Dr. Hassanein Tawfiq Ibrahim, Al-Ahram Center for Political & Strategic Studies, Strategic Series (...)
Muzkarat Al-Anessa Umm Kalthoum (Miss Umm Kalthoum's Memoirs), by: Mohamed Shoair, (Cairo: Dar-Akhbar El-Yom) - Kitab Al-Yom series, Cairo, 2018. pp.119
It is astonishing that all those years passed without anyone noticing that Umm Kalthoum's (...)
Khitab Al-Sharie (The Street Discourse) by Dr. Mohammed Shuman, Dar-Akhbar El-Yom Publishing - Kitab Al-Yom series, 2017. pp.136
The story surrounding this book's writing and publication is crammed with meanings and connotations that are no less (...)
Fi Sabeel Al-Hurryiah (For the Sake of Freedom) by Gamal Abdel Nasser, Dar-Akhbar El-Yom Publishing - Kitab Al-Yom Series, 2018. pp.255
On 19 September 1959, President Gamal Abdel Nasser attended a party organised by the Supreme Council for the (...)
Al-Rabie Al-'Arabi wa Al-Tatawor Al-Demoqrati (The Arab Spring and Democratic Development), by Azza Galal Hashem, Al-Ahram Centre for Political & Strategic Studies, Strategic Series 2017 pp. 32
The winds of the Arab Spring, which blew on the region (...)
Writer and journalist Salah Eissa died on Monday, 25 December at the age of 78 following a battle with illness.
Among the most notable facts surrounding Eissa's passing is that his last article – published on 15 December – was published just a few (...)
The novelist Mekkawi Said has left his seat, which he didn't change for almost 20 years, in Zahrat Al-Bustan Café in Downtown Cairo. Although he didn't suffer from any sickness, he passed away following a sudden heart attack 2 December.
He died at (...)
Muzkarat Sayed Owais (Sayed Owais's Memoirs) by Sayed Owais, The General Egyptian Book Organisation, Autobiographical Series, 2017. pp.262
While Naguib Mahfouz achieved huge success through portraying in an artistic way the lives of contemporary (...)
Al-Hadara Al-Misriyya fi Al-Aasr Al-Qibti (“Egyptian Civilisation in the Coptic Era”), by Dr. Mikhail Maksi Iskander, Cairo: General Egyptian Book Organization, 2016. pp.190.
The first few centuries of the common era in the history of Egypt, in (...)
Nuzha ma'a Naguib Mahfouz (An Outing with Naguib Mafouz), by Persa Koumoutsi, translated from Greek by Dr. Khaled Ra'ouf, the General Egyptian Book Organization, the Awards Series, 2016. pp.203
Despite its publication within a series devoted to (...)
Anfud ‘anny Al-Ghubar (I Dusted Myself Off) by Laila Al-Othman, Al-Ain Publishing, Cairo 2017, pp. 242
Author Laila Al-Othman played a pioneering role as one of the founders of the short story and of novels in Kuwait. She has written to date 13 (...)
Three months have passed since the death of the novelist, writer and the leftist politician Sherif Hatata in May, and last week Dr. Refaat El-Saeed also died.
El-Saeed's death constituted a heavy loss among the second generation of the pillars of (...)
Mufakirat Tifla fi Al-Khamisa wa Al-Thamaneen (A Notebook of an 85-year-old Girl) by Nawal El-Saadawi, Roznameh Publishing, Cairo, 2017 pp.213.
Throughout Nawal El-Saadawi's 85 years of life, she has never lost her mental brilliance or her ability (...)
Sadd Al-Nahda wa Nahr Al-Nil ("The Renaissance Dam and the River Nile"), by Heidi Farouk and Medhat El-Kady, Cairo: Self-published, 2017. pp.400.
More than two thirds of Sadd Al-Nahda wa Nahr Al-Nil is devoted to documents, official decisions, and (...)
Aoudat Al-Gihadiyyeen min Suryia wa Al-Iraq (The Return of the Jihadists from Syria and Iraq) by Mohammed Gomaa, Al-Ahram Center for Political & Strategic Studies, Strategic Series 2017 pp. 36.
The latest edition in the Strategic Series includes a (...)
With the death of writer, politician, intellectual and activist Sherif Hatata, not only has the Egyptian Left lost one of its most important symbols, it has also shared in the end to a chapter in modern Egyptian history.
Hatata was known for having (...)
Denys Johnson-Davis, who passed away on Monday 23 May, was one of the most renowned translators of Arabic literature into English. His contribution to the spread of Arabic literature into European and American libraries is unmistakable; with his (...)
Bidoun Tashira – Mea wa Ushroun Saa fi Al-Ard Al-Muhtala (Without Visa - 120 Hours in the Occupied Land) by Mohammed Hesham Abiyya, Al-Masry Publishing, 2017 pp. 114
Through the front cover, the book's author was keen to profess his standpoint of (...)
Kol Haza Al-Hura' (All This Nonsense) by Ezzedine Choukri Fishere, Al-Karma Publishing, Cairo 2017 pp. 324
Perhaps Egyptian novels dealing with the events and repercussions of the 25 January Revolution are few or rare. Maybe this is understandable, (...)
Al-Mou'assasat Al-Wataniyya li Huquq Al-Insan – Dirasa Muqarana li Halatiyy Misr wa Korea (“The National Institutions of Human Rights – A Comparative Study of Egypt and Korea”) by Dr. Reda Al-'Agouz, Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic (...)
Akhtar Asrar Udwan 1956 (The Deadly Secrets of the Tripartite Aggression 1956) by Mostafa Amin, Dar-Akhbar El-Yom Publishing - Kitab Al-Yom series, 2016. pp.160
It is an established truth in international politics that the global order after the (...)
The late Abdel-Moneim Tallima, who died last week at the age of 80, was not just an influential and important literary critic, but was dedicated to a social mission aimed at both understanding the world and changing it.
Tallima authored numerous (...)
Al-Sira fi Al-Manfa (Biography in Exile) by Bahaa Taher, Bardia Publishing and Masr El-Arabia Publishing, Cairo, 2017. 137 pp.
Typically novelists who decide to write their memoirs don't opt to dictate them. This unusual approach is the one taken by (...)