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Jawad al-Assadi

Jawad al-Assadi is an Iraqi theater director, playwright, theater researcher and poet. Al-Assadi was born on January 12, 1947, in Karbala. While still...

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...

Fouad al-Tikerly

Fouad al-Tikerly (Arabic: فؤاد التكرلي; August 22, 1927 – February 11, 2008) was a prominent Iraqi novelist and writer, best known for his groundbreak...

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...

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...

Al-Karma Publishers

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

İnci Aral

İnci Aral is a well-known Turkish writer of novels and short stories who has works published around the world. She was born in 1944 in Denizli, Turkey...

Abd al-Sattar Nasir

عبد الستار ناصر جدوع الزوبعي (1947-2013) هو كاتب وقاص عراقي، ولد في محلة الطاطران البغدادية، كان مدير تحرير مجلة التراث الشعبي البغدادية، ويُعد أحد كت...

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...

Rowayat

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

ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly

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

Elles Publications

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

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...

Hoopoe

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

Discontent

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

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...

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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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...

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...

Al-Hayya

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

Jawad al-Assadi

Jawad al-Assadi is an Iraqi theater director, playwright, theater researcher and poet. Al-Assadi was born on January 12, 1947, in Karbala. While still...