The author, Adel El-Agwany, is a psychiatrist. This piece of information may serve as an explanation for what this exceptional novel puts the reader through. The Hole is a book about a man who loses his mind while reading a book called The Hole (...)
Three stories by the legendary author Ghassan Kanafani constitute the pinnacle of his oeuvre and the essence of his literary school. They were introduced to readers in his latest novella.
Kanafani is known for the characteristic open endings in most (...)
Father Time; the man who first attempted to count, the first human to ever attempt measuring time, a curse from which he suffered for an eternity.
Mitch Albom, the famous widely celebrated writer and novelist who is well known for his bestselling (...)
The Map of Love's antagonist Anna Winterbourne comes to Egypt from England in the early 1900s after the death of her husband, fascinated by everything Egyptian and eager to see the country from a new perspective.
In her attempt to see the beauty of (...)
Eslam El-Bana is a young Egyptian novelist, whose first book "Bab Al-Hegazy" was published in 2014. El-Bana writes with words that are more like images that allow the reader to travel through time into the 1970s in a poor Egyptian village.
El-Bana (...)
The famous Egyptian writer and novelist, Mohamed Mansi Qandil, writes history like no other writer does, taking readers into the realities of history. Some historical novel writers focus on the macro level, the historic events and their echoes, (...)
On two of the hottest, most humid nights Cairo has ever seen, and in the heart of a sandstorm, the weather at the Cairo Opera House on 7 and 8 September was otherwise filled with the mesmerising vibe of the Moulin Rouge.
The musical play was a (...)
If you are a Harry Potter fan living in Egypt, you will almost certainly have heard about the Harry Potter Experience organised by the Patient Support Team (PST). Last Saturday, hundreds of witches and wizards got together in a Harry Potter-themed (...)
"I was walking along a path with two friends – the sun was setting – suddenly the sky turned blood red – I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence – there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city – my friends (...)
"Women in Council" was a Greek comedy by Aristophanes and it was played in 392 BC, then after more than two millennia, that ancient play inspired one of Tawfiq Al-Hakim's most brilliant works; Praxa, or ‘The Problem of Ruling'.
The book is only a (...)
"Sous Les Tilleuls" was the first novel written by Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, a French critic, journalist, and novelist. Karr wrote this autobiographical romantic novel in 1832.
Over 60 years later, Mustafa Lutfi El-Manfalouti translated it into (...)