Iconic Iraqi poet Saadi Youssef, has died today at the age of 87 in his home in Harefield outside of London, leaving behind a rich poetic legacy with 40 works of poetry and a dozen of prose, literary criticism and a memoir.
Youssef died on Saturday (...)
Egypt's highest state awards in art, literature, and social sciences for 2021 were announced on 1 June, with writers Mohamed Salmawy, Bahaa Abdel-Meguid, novelist Mohamed El-Mansi Qandil, and Historian Mohammed Afifi among the top names of the (...)
Nahr Al-Nile (Nile River: The myths.. the rights and Egyptian-Ethiopian Conflict), by: Ahmed El-Sayed El-Naggar, (Cairo: Dar Al-Maraya), 2021.
Dar Al-Maraya publishing house has released a new book titled 'Nile River: The myths.. the rights and (...)
Renowned Egyptian feminist, author, and activist Nawal El-Saadawi, who championed women's rights for decades, died on Sunday at the age of 89.
El-Saadawi was born on 27 October, 1931 in Qalioubiya governorate in the Nile Delta.
Throughout her (...)
The American University in Cairo Press, has revealed a shortlist for the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature, for the first time since the award was established.
The six shortlisted titles were chosen from 270 novels submitted from across the Arab (...)
Sawiris Foundation for Social Development has announced that it will be delaying the upcoming ceremony for its cultural awards until April instead of the original date scheduled for the ceremony on January 8th.
The foundation said that the delay (...)
Egyptian writer and novelist Nabil Farouk, who became famous for his Egyptian pocket novels, died on 9 December after suffering a heart attack at the age of 64.
Farouk was a pioneering spy fiction writer.Adham Sabry, theprotagonist of his most (...)
Egyptian writer Said El-Kafrawy, who was one of the most prominent writers of the 60's literary generation in Egypt, has died on Saturday at the age of 81.
El-Kafrawy was one of of the writers who attended Naguib Mahfouz's cultural salon in the (...)
Dar El-Shorouk Publishing house, will host a live event on Facebook for the Egyptian renowned writer, Ahmed Mourad, tonight 15 July at 9:00pm to discuss his upcoming novel Locandet Beer El-Wataweet (Bats Well Motel).
The novel was announced a few (...)
Eyptian Historian Khaled Fahmy, Professor of Modern Arabic Studies at Cambridge University, will give an online talk on Friday, May 8, at 2:30 pm GMT (3:30 Cairo time), about the "history of quarantines in 19th century Egypt, and the science behind (...)
The Department of Culture and Tourism in Abu Dhabi has announced that it will be delaying the 30th edition of Abu Dhabi International Book Fair (ADIBF), which was scheduled to take place on 15 until 21 April 2020, at the Abu Dhabi National (...)
Egyptian author Youssef Ziedan has made it to the shortlist of the 13th International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF), known as the Arabic Booker, for his novel Fardeqan – the Detention of the Great Sheikh by published by Dar El-Shorouk.
The (...)
Arab writers Union has concluded its conference in Egypt with a closing statement that asserted the importance of fighting terrorism on the cultural level and affirming a "firm position in support of Palestinian people's right to establish their (...)
Syrian-born Palestinian Saleh Almani, a one of a kind translator who helped translate a whole library of Latin American literature into Arabic, died today in Madrid at the age of 70.
Almani is best known for his translations of the iconic novel 100 (...)
The longlist for the 2019 Booker Prize has been announced today, Wednesday, 24 July including Elif Shafak's book "10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World," and Margaret Atwood's “The Testaments” and Salman Rushide's “Quichotte.”
This year's (...)
Omani Writer Jokha Alharthi, has been announced as the winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize for her novel Celestial Bodies (Sayyidat Al-Aqamar), translated into English by Marilyn Booth and published by Sandstone Press.
The £50,000 (...)
The Man Booker International Prize has today, Wednesday, 13 March, revealed the ‘Man Booker Dozen' of 13 novels in contention for the 2019 prize, including two Arab writers.
The list includes Omani writer Jokha Alharthi for her book Celestial Bodies (...)
The shortlist for the 2019 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, known as the Arabic Booker, was announced on Tuesday and include the Egyptian Adel Esmat, Lebanese Hoda Barakat, Iraqi Inaam Kachachi, Moroccan Mohammed Al-Maazuz, Syrian Shahla (...)
British-Egyptian writer, Omar Robert Hamilton, has won the "Prize for Arabic Literature," for his novel "The City Always Wins."
Hamilton won the prize for the French edition of his book translated by Sarah Gurcel and published by the prestigious (...)
Syrian writer and novelist Hanna Mina died on Tuesday in the Syrian capital of Damascus at the age of 94.
Mina, who is best known for his book Al-Shira Wal Asifa (The Sail and the Storm) and Athalg Ya'ti min Al-Nafiza (The Ice comes from the (...)
As we sat down in his home in Zamalek, peeking at the Nile from his fabulous balcony that overlooks the river, I was going over the question I spent the whole night writing and rewriting while waiting for my first meeting with Samir Amin, one of the (...)
World acclaimed Egyptian economist and thinker, Samir Amin, has died on Sunday in Paris. He was 86.
Amin was born in Egypt in 1931 to an Egyptian father and French mother and spent his youth in Port Said. After studying in Egypt, he continued his (...)
Egypt's National Archive has published a collection of original documents from the 23 July revolution, which saw the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of an Egyptian republic in 1952.
The documents include the original letter, dated 26 (...)
Egyptian Liverpool star Mohamed Salah, posted a photo of himself on his Twitter account on Thursday reading a book called The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F***.
Many social media users tried to look for a hidden message in the book title, especially (...)
Egypt's highest State Awards in the fields of art, literature and social sciences for 2017 was announced late Tuesday night after final a vote at the Supreme Council for Culture (SCC).
The SCC's 64 members who convened for the annual vote are some (...)