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Ibrahim Abdel Meguid

Ibrahim Abdel Meguid (born 2 December 1946) is an Egyptian novelist and author. His best-known works form the "Alexandria Trilogy": No One Sleeps in A...

Nadine Foty

Egyptian-Palestinian-American children's book author and founder of Palestine In Our Schools

Mohammad el-Mahdi el-Majzoub

Muhammad el-Mahdi el-Magzoub (1919–1982) was born in El-Damar, northern Sudan, to a renowned Sufi family. He graduated from the School of Accountan...

Rowayat

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

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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Radwa Ashour

Radwa Ashour (Arabic: رضوى عاشور) (26 May 1946 – 30 November 2014) was an Egyptian novelist. Life Ashour was born in El-Manial to Mustafa Ashour, a...

Al-Hayya

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

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...

Rimal Books

Rimal Books is an independent publishing house, established in 1993 by Nora Shawwa. Specializing in literature, art, culture, history, contemporary...

Iman Mersal

Iman Mersal (Arabic: إيمان مرسال; born November 30, 1966, Mit 'Adlan, Dakahlia, Egypt) is an Egyptian poet. Life Iman Mersal graduated from Mansour...

Alaa Abd El-Fattah

Alaa Ahmed Seif Abd-El Fattah (Arabic: علاء أحمد سيف الإسلام عبد الفتاح, IPA: [ʕæˈlæːʔ ˈæħmæd ˈseːf ʕæbdelfatˈtæːħ]; born 18 November 1981), known pro...

Mohamed Tonsy

Mohamed Tonsy is a queer Egyptian writer and ceramicist. Formerly an architect and a triathlete representing the Egyptian Triathlo...

ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly

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

Hasan Namir

Hasan Namir is an Iraqi-Canadian writer. Born in Iraq in 1987, Namir moved to Canada with his family at age 11. He is a graduate of Simon Fraser Univ...

Discontent

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

Al-Karma Publishers

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

Amal al-Jubouri

Amal Al-Jubouri (born 1967) is an Iraqi writer, poet, translator, journalist and publisher. Biography Al-Jubouri was born in Baghdad in 1967. When ...

Elles Publications

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

Dariush Shayegan

Dariush Shayegan (Persian: داریوش شایگان;‎ 24 January 1935 – 22 March 2018) was one of the most consequential thinkers of contemporary Iran and the Ne...

Hoopoe

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

Ibrahim Abdel Meguid

Ibrahim Abdel Meguid (born 2 December 1946) is an Egyptian novelist and author. His best-known works form the "Alexandria Trilogy": No One Sleeps in A...