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In Cairo, ‘A Renewed Appetite for Egyptian and Arab Literature’

September 30, 2026

Over at CairoScene, Hassan Tarek reports on book-buying trends in Cairo, with a focus on sales at the Diwan bookstore chain.

Poetry Abeer Suleiman, Ahmed El Esseily, Ahmed Mourad, Ahmed Zewail, Alaa al-Aswani, Anis Mansour, Arabic, bestsellers, Bilal Fadl, Farah Pahlavi, Gamal Ghitani, Ibrahim Aslan, Ibrahim Issa, Kotob Khan, Mekkawi Said, Mohamed el-Bisatie, Mohamed Mansi Qandil, Omar Taher, Tayeb Salih, Yahya Mukhtar, Yousef Zeidan, Yusuf Maati

Kotob Khan’s Arabic Bestsellers for April 2010

May 1, 2010

Thanks to Kotob Khan for making these available. Diwan also posts some bestsellers here, although their ranking or time frame isn’t clear. I have not seen bestseller lists from other […]

POETRY

New and featured poetry in translation.

FICTION

Short fiction from the Maghreb and Mashreq.

INTERVIEWS

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May Ziadeh

More on our translation of May Ziadeh's Musings of a Young Woman.

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Lit Lists

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