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'Victory City' feels like fantasy at first, but important issues like patriarchy are explored by a writer who is as captivating as he is controversial

In an interview with Al Majalla, the author recounts the hardships and struggles of female artists in Cairo's theatres, cabarets, and nightclubs during the city's very own Roaring Twenties

The Yorkshire-born author is today more likely to teach the craft than to engage in it. He speaks to Al Majalla about his four novels and the process of building them.

In her novel "Land of the Turtle," Palestinian author Liana Badr envisions a different future for the Arab-Israeli conflict through the recollections of her fictional character in the year 2048.

Born in Aleppo to a father who was both a voracious reader and passionate polyglot, Khalid Al Joubaily made a career out of the 'nearly impossible task' of translation.

The French-Moroccan writer explores the painful tendency of first-generation immigrants to go silent, putting an unbridgeable distance between themselves and their children.

Al Majalla spoke to the Angolan author about his rich body of work, Annemarie Jacir's Palestinian film adaptation of his book 'A General Theory of Oblivion' and what he currently has in the works.

On the centenary of Kahlil Gibran's 'The Prophet', Al Majalla reflects on its universal message and why it resonated with so many around the world

The acclaimed writer tells Al Majalla about the story of his father's murder at the hands of paramilitaries and the full gamut of his work, including a book to cheer spirits with unusual recipes

The world got a brief taste of the outpour of obituaries and commentaries on his life — that is until people and their short attention span lost interest.