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  • Egyptian novelist and short story writer Bahaa Taher has passed away.

    Egyptian novelist and short story writer Bahaa Taher has passed away.

    Egyptian novelist and short story writer Bahaa Taher passed away in Egypt from illness on October 27, 2022. Bahaa Taher was born in Giza Governorate on January 13, 1935, in Egypt. He had a bachelor’s degree in history, and literature faculty in 1956, then a postgraduate diploma in media from the University of Cairo in…

  • Meet the Africans on the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2016 shortlist

    Meet the Africans on the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2016 shortlist

    Egyptian Mohamed Rabie and Morocco Tareq Bakari are the two Africans on the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2016 shortlist announced today. For those just hearing about this prize, The International Prize for Arabic Fiction is an annual literary prize run with the support of the Booker Prize Foundation in London and funded by the TCA…