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Isabelle Mayault’s debut, “Jours Tranquilles au Caire,” launched this spring, and is currently on sale in Cairo in French, with an Arabic translation in the works.

The 2015 Palestine Festival of Literature, which opens this year on May 23, recently announced its participating authors and their schedule, which includes events in six cities.

“To date, we have published more than 500 titles, and I am not exaggerating at all when I say that I feel the same joy I felt at the beginning, undiminished by the problems and difficulties we have been through.”

In a piece originally written for the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair’s Show Daily, Olivia Snaije talks with prominent publisher and food-writer Farouk Mardam Bey, whose popular book on Arab cuisine is […]

The “library as place” — but what sort of place?

“A book that addresses a nine-year-old child in the US or France, [if you] translate it into Arabic, the language is a bit ahead of the language in Lebanon, because of the difficulty of the Arabic.”

“I did not inherit Kotob Khan. Kotob Khan was for me an existential choice.”

“It’s not my point to defy everybody. I just really want to reach the children in the best way I can. Maybe small steps will get it there, but we are still not there yet.”

“Everywhere in the world people in the book chain don’t really understand the role of the agent. It’s an unusual job. It can feel like a thankless task, but often it’s very gratifying as well.”