In his latest novel, “Ana A'sheqt” or “I Fell in Love,” Muhammed El-Mansi Qandil is telling a love story that went beyond reality, and beyond love. It all started with the girl, Ward, who suffered from a rare medical illness close to stupor after (...)
Youssef Ziedan, author of award-winning multi-million bestselling novel “Azazel,” strikes again with his latest novel, “Mohal.”
Ziedan leaves the title of the novel without the Arabic short vowel marks, or tashkil, making it viable to three (...)
Literary recession still glooms over book lovers in Egypt. There are no notable sensations to mark 2010, with bestseller lists largely unchanged from last year's, which in turn wasn't much different from the one before it. There are, however, few (...)
“By the one two-faced God and by primordial wisdom, I speak the truth. There is none but Mother and Son. From the two, every mother and son come. An embrace to the mother, longing to her son, and to them together birth and recreation. God Eel (...)
After a long and controversial debate surrounding the 2010 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, known as the Arabic Booker, the dubious committee decided to award its top prize to the Saudi novelist Abdo Khal for his novel, "Tarmi Besharar" (...)
Thirty-three years since Abdel Halim Hafez's passing, hundreds of the Egyptian legend's devoted fans continue to flock to his house every year to commemorate his death on March 30.
Halim's home is in an old Zamalek building in Cairo. The (...)
Set in the countryside of Upper Egypt, "Astasia” centers on a murder where everyone is a suspect. On the surface of the latest novel by Egyptian Khairy Shalaby (Dar Al Shorouk), the book seems to share some elements with Tawfik El-Hakim's classic (...)
The one definite reality about Egyptian literature this year is that the volume of works released is relatively poor compared to last year's. This literary recession may have its roots in the economic crisis which hit every field in 2009.
This (...)
"Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, no matter noble and great the latter may be Mohandas K. Gandhi
In his latest novel, prominent Egyptian novelist, Sonalla (...)
"For in that sleep of death what dreams may come. -William Shakespeare
In his latest novel, "Ka'anaha Nae'ma (As If She Were Sleeping), prominent Lebanese novelist, playwright and critic Elias Khoury takes his readers to a mystifying zone located (...)