Books

Edwar al-Kharrat (1926-2015) was an Egyptian novelist, writer, and critic, and great lover of books:  By Chihab El Khachab My childhood in Cairo was spent ……Read More

From our special section, edited and translated by Chihab El Khachab, on Edwar al-Kharrat and his library: By Ferial Ghazoul [originally published in Abdel Moneim ……Read More

Over at Youssef Rakha’s Cosmopolitan Hotel is work by Moroccan poet and novelist Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine, in translation by Conor Bracken, from a new book — Scorpionic Sun ……Read More

Last month, Olive Branch Press — an imprint of Interlink Books — released a collection of five interviews with the great Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008) ……Read More

Lebanese novelist Hilal Chouman was featured in the “chitchat” section of the most recent Mada Masr “Detox,” a feature that appears each weekend: The chitchats ……Read More

This past weekend, novelist Layla al-Ammar set off a search for bilingual Arabic-English books: A search turns up a decent number of classic works in ……Read More