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Hoopoe

Hoopoe is an imprint for engaged, open-minded readers hungry for outstanding fiction that challenges headlines, re-imagines histories, and celebrat...

Sherif Hatata

Sharif Hatata (Arabic: شريف حتاتة; 13 September 1923 – 22 May 2017) was an Egyptian doctor, author and communist activist. Early life Hatata was b...

Mohamed el-Bisatie

Mohamed el-Bisatie (Arabic: محمد البساطي; November 1937 – 14 July 2012) was an Egyptian novelist and short story writer. Life He was born in el-Gam...

Salah Isa

Salah Isa (1939–2017) was an Egyptian journalist and historian in left-wing politics. Biography Salah Isa was born on October 14, 1939, in the vill...

Alaa Al Aswany

Alaa Al Aswany (Arabic: علاء الأسواني, IPA: [ʕæˈlæːʔ elɑsˈwɑːni]; born 26 May 1957) is an Egyptian writer, novelist, and a founding member of the poli...

Moustafa Mounir

Moustafa Mounir is an Egyptian author who was born in Cairo in 1989. He graduated from Ain Shams university with an English literature degree. He c...

Rowayat Publishing House

In 2012, Rowayat روايات launched as a literary journal platforming the hybrid writer, focusing on Egyptian and Arab/SWANA writers. Our publications...

Elles Publications

Elles is a femenist pan Arab publishing house Library and art space

Mahrousa

Mahrousa was founded by Faried Zahran in 1986, as an independent publishing house, research and information center. Mahrousa three pillars are:

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May Telmissany

May Telmissany was born in Cairo in 1965. She has an MA in French Literature from Cairo University and is currently preparing her doctoral thesis at t...

Discontent

A magazine of social and political discontent. Palestine. Lebanon. Egypt.

Nagat Ali

Nagat Ali (born 1975) is an Egyptian poet. She was born and raised in Cairo. She studied Arabic literature at university, and is working on a PhD diss...

Rowayat

In 2012, Rowayat روايات launched as a literary journal platforming the hybrid writer, focusing on E...

Al-Karma Publishers

Al-Karma Publishers is an Arabic publishing house that was established in 2013 in Cairo.

Ibrahim Aslan

Ibrahim Aslan (1935 – 7 January 2012) (Arabic:إبراهيم أصلان) was an Egyptian novelist and short story writer. Biography and work Aslan was born in...

Al-Hayya

Al Hayya is a magazine that publishes literary and visual content on the works, interests and strife of women, bilingually...

ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly

ArabLit, ArabLit Quarterly, and ALQ Books are a translator-centered collective that produces a website, quarterly magazine...

Merit Publishing House

Merit Publishing House is an Egyptian publishing house, founded in 1998 by its founder, Mohamed Hashem. It is embraced a large number of Egyptian c...

Bahaa Taher

Bahaa Taher (Arabic: بهاء طاهر; 13 January 1935 – 27 October 2022), sometimes transliterated as Bahaa Tahir, Baha Taher, or Baha Tahir, was an Egyptia...

Salah Fadl

Mohamed Salahuddin Abdel-Sameeh Fadl (Arabic:صلاح فضل) (21 March 1938 – 10 December 2022) was an Egyptian academic, writer, and translator from Kafr e...

Hoopoe

Hoopoe is an imprint for engaged, open-minded readers hungry for outstanding fiction that challenges headlines, re-imagines histories, and celebrat...