A number of readers were interested in the “On the Second Anniversary: Censorship Concerns” that ran on Jan. 25. The blog “Egypt Source” was interested in a follow-up. Excerpted from […]
This was the first year that Pieter Steinz, director of the Dutch Foundation for Literature, and Maarten Valken, head of the foundation’s translation department, visited the Cairo International Book Fair: […]
The address of the AUC’s Zamalek Dorms is: 16 Mohamed Abn Thakeb Street In front of El Maraashly Church, Zamalek.
According to Ahram Online’s Mary Mourad, one of the 2013 Cairo Book Fair’s most heated discussions was over this year’s International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) shortlist: This year’s shortlist, after […]
This Saturday in Cairo, the winners of the 2012 Sawiris Prize were announced at a ceremony at the Opera House. Ibrahim Farghali (@IbrahimFarghali) won the best fiction award in the “senior […]
Five years after its initial publication, Magdy al-Shafee’s graphic novel Metro is once again available in Arabic in Egypt: By Elisabeth Jaquette Metro is Egypt’s first graphic novel and a […]
This summer, a delegation of 18 librarians, archivists, and other library workers will travel to Palestine: The delegation, which has been in the works since the summer of 2002, is […]
The first half-day of the Cairo International Book Fair, Wednesday, was almost empty of visitors, Ahram Online reported. The second was also slow to its feet, according to ArabLit’s Elisabeth Jaquette: Jaquette […]
At a recent news conference, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights noted that, two years after January 25, many abuses of state power continue. Censorship is among these abuses: Attacks on journalists […]
