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An unpublished book by Mostafa Amin on the Suez War’s sixtieth anniversary
Mostafa Amin’s book, has been published in episodic form in order to narrate past events in Akhbar El-Yom between November and early December 1960

INTERVIEW: Connie Palmen on the horror Ted Hughes had to face
Dutch writer Connie Palmen speaks of her latest novel, You Said It, that fictionalises the tragic relationship between Sylvia Plath and her husband Ted Hughes

Egyptian novelist Bahaa Taher: Glimpses in autobiography
Biography in Exile focuses on Taher's self-imposed exile in Europe after the late President Anwar Sadat launched a repressive campaign against the Left in 1971

French Historian Henry Laurens on the historical and religious baggage of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
French historian, Henry Laurens, celebrated the launch of the last volume of his book 'The Question of Palestine'

Author of Homegoing receiving PEN Hemingway Award
Yaa Gyasi will be bestowed the 2017 PEN Hemingway Award on Sunday at a ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
Martin Luther King's daughter says her mother's papers should be published
King's daughter says her mother has a 'wealth of materials' and it's tragic that it cannot be contained in a book
EU court upholds tax rules on electronic publications
The ruling came after Poland's constitutional court, which had doubts about the validity of the tax rules, sought its opinion
Rediscovered US literary great Paula Fox dies at 93
Fox was mostly known as a children's writer who frankly explored abandonment and loss until she was championed by a new generation of US writers in the 1990s
'A Little Alexandria in Cairo': Historian Mohamed Afifi traces the history of Cairo's Shubra
Egyptian author Mohammed Abdel Nabi makes it to Arabic Booker shortlist
The novels selected were chosen from 186 entries from 19 countries, all published between July 2015 and June 2016
Palestinian writer afraid to go home amid uproar over novel
29 year old Abbad Yahya's novel was confiscated by the Palestinian authorities in the West Bank that issued him an arrest warrant too
Alt-right extremist Yiannopoulos postpones book to include campus protests
Yiannopoulos is an editor of the rightwing news website Breitbart, and is known for inflammatory remarks about women and Muslims
CNN's Jake Tapper writing debut novel scheduled for 2018
The novel is called "The Hellfire Club" and it takes place in a world that well predates the Trump administration
Pro Helvetia to host workshop on culture and arts journalism
The workshop targets young journalists ages 20 to 25 interested in improving their arts and culture writing
New Release: On the battle of Mubarak's culture minister to head UNESCO
After eight years, Farouk Hosni reveals the secrets behind his 2009 failed bid to be elected UNESCO director-general
Egypt PM inaugurates Cairo intl book fair
This year marks the 48th round of one of the world's biggest book fairs
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