Many Western novels about Egypt risk emphasizing common stereotypes. But British novelist Paul Sussman is an exception.
Through several bestselling thrillers, he highlights overlooked historical facts and mythical stories, offering his readers (...)
Egypt is losing 30,000 acres of arable land each year to urban encroachment, Farouk al-Baz, director of the Boston Remote Sensing Institute, said at a conference held in Cairo this week devoted to land studies.
“All of the country's arable land will (...)
British journalist Mark Curtis's recently released book "Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam" tells the story of the West's so-called “war on terror,” which Curtis says is nothing but a product of the foreign policies of dominant (...)
Doctors usually have a lot of interesting stories to tell about their patients. And when it comes to high profile patients, like Presidents of the United States for instance, these stories could be a book. In The White House Doctor (Thomas Dunne, (...)
Over the past 30 years, American novelist Nelson DeMille has written 15 novels all of which were best sellers and many of which were translated into several languages, including Arabic. In his novels, DeMille mixes fact and fiction to create (...)
The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 have reshaped the world, not in terms of geography, but rather in terms of what people around the world find interesting. One feature of this change is that the West seems to be on a quest for a genuine, (...)
Jeffrey Herf, professor of modern European history at the University of Maryland, College Park, recently authored Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World, published by Yale University Press. In 2006 he published The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during (...)