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A Shimmering Red Fish Swims with Me

Youssef Fadel

In 1980s Casablanca, Farah arrives from her small town life with big dreams: she wants to sing. She meets Outhman, but he longs to leave the city, to seek his fortune elsewhere. They fall in love, but … continued

The Egyptian Assassin

Ezzedine C. Fishere

A lifetime ago, Fakhreddin had been an idealistic young lawyer, seeking to fight corruption from his modest quarter of Cairo. Then, a botched attempt on his life forced him to flee the country, propel … continued

The Hashish Waiter

Khairy Shalaby

Tucked away in a rundown quarter, just out of sight of downtown Cairo, a group of intellectuals gather regularly to smoke hashish in Hakeem’s den. The den is the center of their lives, both a refuge a … continued

Rana Haddad

Donia Kamal

Maan Abu Taleb

The New York Review of Books on Khaled Khalifa’s novels

Last December, the New York Review of Books reviewed three of Khaled Khalifa’s novels, including No Knives in the Kitchens of This City, translated from the Arabic by Leri Price (Hoopoe, 2016).

Muhammad Abdelnabi wins 2019 Grand Prix de Littérature Arabe

Muhammad Abdelnabi’s novel In the Spider’s Room, a sensitive and courageous account of life as a gay man in Egypt, continues to weave an ever larger web of intrigue, reaching a growing international r…

Reading with… Ezzedine C. Fishere

Shelf Awareness, a widely-circulated ,US-based online newsletter about books, recently interviewed the Egyptian novelist Ezzedine C. Fishere, author of Embrace on Brooklyn Bridge, translated by John P…