Kuwaiti writer and novelist, Saud Alsanousi has been announced as the winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) for his novel Saq Al-Bamboo (The Bamboo Stalk). The prize is worth $50,000. The announcement took place at the Rocco (...)
A year has passed since the January 25 Revolution erupted. As much as the cultural scene in Egypt shows signs of hope, there is also a fog of uncertainty. The revolution continues raising slogans calling for freedom and social justice yet it finds (...)
On the occasion of late Egyptian writer and Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz's 100th birthday, the American University in Cairo (AUC) has decided to dedicate this year's Mahfouz Prize – usually given to the authors of contemporary Arabic-language (...)
The director of Jordan's Karama Human Rights Film Festival, Sawsan Darwaza, signed a contract for a special section on human rights films in the next edition of the Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF), she said. Egyptian producer Sherif (...)