books

June 8, 2010

All night long

For centuries, the tales recounted in One Thousand and One Arabian Nights have provided readers around the world with a…

June 7, 2010

El-Ragol Zul Badla el-Baydaa el-Sharkskin, Waqaea Khoroug Aeila Yahodia Men Misr ('The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish…

May 24, 2010

The American University in Cairo Press has recently published Saint Theresa and Sleeping with Strangers (2010) by Bahaa Abdelmegid. Abdelmegid…

May 15, 2010

Last Saturday in a lush garden just across el-Mansouriya road from the pyramids, a large crowd gathered to celebrate the…

May 11, 2010

Palestinian authors Suad Amiry and Randa Abdel Fattah celebrated the launch of their latest books on 30 April at al-Kotob…

May 9, 2010

On 1 May at 7:30 PM, novelists, poets, and scholars gathered together at the Palestinian National Theater in Jerusalem for…

May 4, 2010

The Scent of Marie-Claire is one of the latest publications from the AUC Press and Habib Selmi’s first work to…

April 19, 2010

Signposts to Elsewhere (Jane Street Press, 2009) by Egyptian-Lebanese writer Yahia Lababidi, is a journey into the soul, life, and…

March 25, 2010

There are over a quarter of a million Egyptian immigrants working in the United Arab Emirates today--or rather, that is…

March 2, 2010

A report by the Egyptian Cabinet's Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC) revealed that 88 percent of Egyptian families are…