Books

Eleni Kapetanaki is one of a handful of active literary translators who are currently bringing literature from Arabic into Greek: Kapetanaki studied economics and had been ……Read More

Writer-translator Ahmed Salah Eldein reflects on the art of Mansoura Ezz Eldin and discusses her art and views on life and writing: By Ahmed Salah Eldein ……Read More

Emily Drumsta has translated two stories by Egyptian writer Radwa Ashour (1946-2014), from her 1990 collection Ra’ayt al-Nakhl: Qisas (I Saw the Date Palms: Stories). The ……Read More

The 2016 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature has just gone to the Egyptian writer Adel Esmat for his novel Hikayat Yusuf Tadrus (The Tales of ……Read More

Last night, the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Arabic Literature’s 2016 winner, Egyptian writer Adel Esmat, gave a talk about the master in accepting the prize: ……Read More

The 2016 award ceremony of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature is set to take place today at the AUC Tahrir Campus: The winner of ……Read More