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Egyptian novelist Bahaa Taher made headlines last year when he filed a suit against the American University in Cairo (AUC)…

Since February, publishers and booksellers have been trying to fill the hole left behind by the cancellation of the 43rd…

A number of books that were published decades before the 2011 revolution seem to speak directly to Egypt’s current situation.…

It is impossible not to admire Mona Prince's 2008 novel, “Inni Uhaddithuka li-Tara,” (I Speak to You so that You…

The annual AUC Press Book, Art, and Music Festival held Wednesday at the Cairo Opera House celebrated the 25 January…

Former President Hosni Mubarak was sent the same message in a variety of different ways: high quality posters, ragged cardboard,…

Fadhil al-Azzawi’s The Traveler and the Innkeeper (American University Press, 2011, trans William M. Hutchins) treads much the same ground…

Yesterday, near Tahrir square--the place that witnessed the first spark of the revolution--The American University in Cairo Press opened its…

Eighty-seven-year-old Herbert Vogel and his wife Dorothy are a retired post office clerk and librarian with a massive collection of…

Egyptian publishers potentially had much to mourn after the Publishers Association announced on Wednesday that the 43rd Cairo International Book…