Books

Since its original publication in 1984, Samia Abdennour’s Egyptian Cooking has become a true classic―a must-have cookbook for anyone who wants to eat as the Egyptians do.

Arab Fairy Tale Feasts is the latest title in the highly-praised Fairy Tale Feasts Collection, a creative series that folds enchanting folk tales into cookbooks of kid-friendly recipes.

Gamal al-Ghitani has created a world richly populated with characters and situations that possess authenticity behind their veils of satire.

With an unforgettably vivid cast of characters and a heart-pounding narrative banned across much of the region, Alaa Al Aswany gives us a deeply human portrait of the Egyptian Revolution

In this unflinching and grisly novel, Mohammad Rabie envisages a grim future for Egypt, where death is the only certainty.

Winner of the Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize, a lush experimental novel about love as a weapon of empire.

In the Spider’s Room is a bold tale of sexuality and persecution in contemporary Egypt.

Entertaining and revelatory, this is an essential resource for studying one of humankind’s great civilizations.

In their citation awarding al-Kharrat the Mahfouz Medal, the judges stated: “Rama and the Dragon is considered a breakthrough in the literary history of modern Arabic fiction.”

These disparate lives careen toward an explosive conclusion in Alaa Al Aswany's remarkable international bestseller.

Set against the backdrop of a failed political uprising in Egypt, this chilling debut evokes Orwellian dystopia, Kafkaesque surrealism, and a very real vision of life after the Arab Spring.

This classic novel has been an inspiration to countless people across the world.

First published in 1964, Beer in the Snooker Club is a classic of the literature of emigration.

Naguib Mahfouz's haunting novella of post-revolutionary Egypt combines a vivid pychological portrait of an anguished man with the suspense and rapid pace of a detective story.