A city — known for its light-heartedness, vibrancy and capacity for fun — is ripped apart by war.
A young man — full of the vim, vigour and desires of youth — refuses to allow his spirit to be dampened…
November, 1980. An...
That Smell is Sonallah Ibrahim's modernist masterpiece and one of the most influential Arabic novels. Composed in the wake of a five-year prison sentence, the semi-autobiographical story follows a recently released political prisoner as he...
Set in the turbulent years before the 1952 revolution that would overthrow King Farouk and bring Gamal Abdel Nasser to power, Stealth by Sonallah Ibrahim, one of Egypt s most respected and uncompromising novelists is a gripping story seen through...