Books

“Chapter Twelve: October 14, 1994” is at the heart of Mohamed Shoair’s acclaimed 2018 popular history, Children of the Alley: The Story of the Forbidden Novel. The ……Read More

How did novelists deploy types in an apparent push to open up gender norms in Sudan? By Lemya Shammat In his book The Candle and ……Read More

Widyan Almasarani, one of the participants of the KfW Stiftung and Goethe-Institut Cairo Short Stories Masterclass set to open today, has a short story at Adda, ……Read More

Palestinian novelist Sahar Khalifeh — winner of the Muhammad Zafzaf Prize — has seen five of her novels translated to English, but not her classic Bab al-Saha, ……Read More

Do you hear that? That’s the sound of the stack of books on your night-stand getting bigger. Make room, because Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo, ……Read More

The great Egyptian writer Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898-1987) was born on this day in Alexandria: And nobody @ me about his misogyny this year, unless you ……Read More