All posts tagged "book"

Unrelenting and unforgiving is the Arab experience. From wet womb to war-torn, Arab children are born into...

Table for one, please. Recently, I started a weekly ritual: to take myself for Matcha at my...

Cairo is home to some of the most beautiful art-deco structures in the world, so what makes...

“We were told not to look beyond the wall and the Libyan Auxiliary Police made the rocky...

Kimo is a lion with down syndrome, Zizi is a zebracorn with cerebral palsy, Lala is a...

  “From my mother, I inherited a stone cake, and, from my father, a prison cell.” –...

When the word library comes to mind, several images rise alongside it: commanding structures, brooding masterpieces of...

Few things in life can delight a bookworm more than discovering a new bookstore. Looking at shelves...

An Arabic, illustrated, exploration of all that is and isn’t taboo, Rooted in the Body: Arabic Metaphor...

“Cairo and Alexandria were cosmopolitan not so much because they contained foreigners, but because the Egyptian born...

“A book is alive with discussions like this; the writer is just half the book,” exclaimed award...

Two deaths of prominent members of the Egyptian-Jewish community recently made it into the pages of local...

Whenever we walk the streets of Cairo or any other city, for that matter, how often do...

Omani writer Jokha Alharthi won the prestigious Man Booker International Prize for her novel Celestial Bodies in...

Artist and Associate Professor of Graphic Design at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar, Basma Hamdy curates a...

  There is a library in Denmark where people replace books, and conversations replace silent reading, ones...