Books

More than six months back there was a book on Rajesh Khanna released which went by the name of 'The Loneliness of Being Rajesh Khanna ……Read More

‘Tis the season: Youssef Rakha’s Crocodiles, trans Robin Moger (2015). This is a very different book from Rakha’s complex and layered debut, Sultan’s Seal. It’s an ……Read More

This weekend marks the North American premiere of Mohammad Al Attar’s Could You Please Look Into the Camera? in an English translation by Lisa Wedeen: ……Read More

A three-day conference on “Theatre and Censorship” — organized by Egypt’s National Centre of Theatre, Music and Popular Arts — wraps up today: From the conference artwork, ……Read More

A piece in the Harvard Political Review, “The Head and the Body,” looks at the pigeonholing of non-Western writers, asserting that, “One of the biggest offenders in ……Read More

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 ……Read More