Entre création littéraire et enquête sociologique, inspirées de conversations réelles conduites avec des chauffeurs de taxi du Caire en 2005-2006, les nouvelles en mouvement de Khaled Al Khamissi dressent le...
... Je rêvais de devenir journaliste ou cinéaste, je devins militaire. J'étais petit-fils et fils de courtisan, je devins révolutionnaire malgré moi. J'étais play-boy, je devins bagnard. Mais, comme dit...
On a school playground in the stylish Cairo suburb of Abbasiya, five young boys become friends for life, making a nearby café, Qushtumur, their favorite gathering spot forever. One is...
In his shortest short stories, the Egyptian Nobel literature laureate reduced the fictional form to its most essential level, while retaining his justifiably famous mastery of the storytelling art.A man...
One long winter night and the Cairo neighborhood of Kit Kat stands at a crossroads. Poised like herons fishing on the banks of the Nile, the characters of this novel...
First published in Arabic in 1983, this brief but powerful parable is set in a mythical, timeless Middle East. It is presented as the journal of a wanderer known as...
The Long Way Back tells the story of four generations of the same family living in an old house in the Bab al-Shaykh area of Baghdad. Through exquisite layering of...
A psychological study of the first order with a subtly Freudian flavor, The Mirage is the autobiographical account of Kamil Ru’ba, a tortured soul who finds himself struggling unduly to...
Naguib Mahfouz, the first and only writer of Arabic to be awarded the Nobel prize for literature, wrote prolifically from the 1930s until shortly before his death in 2006, in...