BRUSSELS, BELGIUM -  An original cover painting from the 1963 comic book Asterix and Cleopatre was to go under the hammer on Sunday despite a legal challenge from the artist's daughter. The famous gouache, showing a reclining ancient Egyptian ruler and the two Gaulish heroes Asterix and Obelix was to be...

Cairo, Egypt---Thousands of Egyptian bibliophiles weave through a labyrinthine display of books, reviving an annual tradition at the Arab world's largest book fair, but this year it comes at a steep cost. The 54th Cairo International Book Fair was overshadowed by a punishing economic crisis that has seen Egypt's currency, the...

Khaled Abdulla-Janahi , an international Arab thought leader, feels strongly about changing the traditional perception encompassing the concept of leadership.

A group of 25 international children’s authors from five continents will be leading a cultural program at the 13th edition of the Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival (SCRF), which takes place from May 11 – 22 at the Expo Centre Sharjah. Organized by Sharjah Book Authority (SBA), the annual festival for...

Weekly storytelling events are one of the last affordable pleasures in Lebanon, where a crashing local currency has rendered books something of a luxury.

Colorful fireworks lit up the sky during the festival organized by Baghdad municipality to inaugurate the renovated Al-Mutanabbi Street, which has long drawn bibliophiles.

The gesture aims to provide public and government libraries in Sharjah with various modern publications in all Arab and foreign scientific, literary, and cultural fields. It is also expected to help update the knowledge content of the libraries, which constitute a major reference for researchers and readers in the emirate.

Egypt has a long history of political prisoners turning to writing to capture their experiences in confinement.