Egyptian Novelist and Poet Omar Hazek on List of Those to Be ‘Pardoned’
One hundred Egyptian prisoners who were arrested for political reasons have been placed on a list to be pardoned and released. Novelist and poet Omar Hazek is one of them.
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Cairo Street to be Named for Novelist Gamal al-Ghitani
The street will have its name changed from “Dabbabya” to “Gamal al-Ghitani.”
CairoComix Coming Soon: The First Comics Festival in Egypt
Opens September 30.
Pioneer Translator Roger Allen on a Text He’s Been Working with for the Last 50 Years
Roger Allen retired in 2011 from his position as the Sascha Jane Patterson Harvie Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he served for forty-three years as Professor of Arabic […]
Library of Arabic Literature’s ‘Paperback Launch’ to Feature Amitav Ghosh, Elias Khoury, Sinan Antoon
“In less than a month, the Library of Arabic Literature (LAL) will launch its first four English-only paperback volumes.”
Algerian Noveliest Boualem Sansal’s ‘2084’ Makes Both Goncourt, Renaudot Longlists
2084 takes place 100 years after 1984. It takes Big Brother and places him in the fictional kingdom of “Abistan.”
New AUC Press Bookshop Opens in Maadi
Last night marked the opening of another bookshop in Maadi, a southern suburb of Cairo.
Two Reviews of ‘Snow in Amman’
“The collection has…an unusual near-balance between men’s stories and women’s.”
‘Allaah, Allaah, Allaah’: Fall Talks at the AUC’s Center for Translation Studies
This season, all lectures will be in English.