Six authors from Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt are on the shortlist as finalists for the first-ever International Prize for Arabic Fiction. The shortlisted books, chosen from 131 entries, are “June ...

The Arabic Booker shortlist includes Ibrahim Issa, the only Egyptian, and excludes big names like Lebanon's Elias Khoury, who was on the longlist for his novel Sinalcol Here is a synopsis of the six ...

Have your parents ever scared you lifeless with the promise of the “bo3bo3” coming to get you at night? Have you ever referred to an empty street as “mafi wala doumari”? And why on earth do we refer ...

An Egyptian court sentenced a six-year-old boy to six months in prison after convicting him of "attacking the authorities", according to the London-based newspaper al-Quds al-Arabi. Abu al-Hassan ...