Lawrence Wright is an author, screenwriter, playwright, and staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. He has won a Pulitzer Prize and three National Magazine Awards.
Albert Hourani was born the son of immigrants from South Lebanon. He studied Philosophy, Politics, Economics and History (with an emphasis on international relations)at the Magdalen College in Oxford.…
Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic: نوال السعداوي) was born in 1931, in a small village outside Cairo. Unusually, she and her brothers and sisters were educated together, and she graduated from the University o…
Asef Bayat (Ph.D. University of Kent 1984) (Persian: آصف بیات) is Professor of Sociology and Middle Eastern studies at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was Professor of Sociology and Mid…
ROGER ROSENBLATT, whose work has been published in 14 languages, is the author of five New York Times Notable Books of the Year, and three Times bestsellers, including the memoirs KAYAK MORNING, THE B…
A specialist in the social and cultural history of nineteenth-century Egypt, Khaled Fahmy teaches modern Middle eastern and North African history at Tufts University.
Yusuf Idris (also Yusif Idris; Arabic: يوسف إدريس) was an Egyptian writer of plays, short stories, and novels. He wrote realistic stories about ordinary and poor people. Many of his works are in the E…
Étienne de La Boétie (ou Estienne de La Boetie was a French judge, writer and "a founder of modern political philosophy in France". He is best remembered as the great and close friend of the eminent e…
Taha Hussein was one of the most influential 20th century Egyptian writers and intellectuals, and a figurehead for the Arab Renaissance and the modernist movement in the Arab World. …
كاتب وصحفى ومؤرخ ولد فى 4 اكتوبر عام 1939 فى قرية " بشلا " بمحافظة الدقهلية حصل على بكالوريوس فى الخدمة الاجتماعية عام 1961 ورأس لمدة خمس سنوات عددا من الوحدات الاجتماعية بالريف المصرى بدأ حياته كاتبا…
Thomas Hegghammer is a Norwegian academic who has studied jihadism since before 9/11. He is senior research fellow at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) and adjuct professor of politic…
Adania Shibli (عدنية شبلي) was born in Palestine in 1974. Her first two novels appeared in English with Clockroot Books as Touch (tr. Paula Haydar, 2010) and We Are All Equally Far From Love (tr. Paul…
كاتبة وروائية مصرية كانت من أعلام الحركة الطلابية في أوائل السبعينيات في جامعات مصر. قدمت كتابات في عدد من الصحف والمجلات الشهيرة، ضاقت بالحياة وألقت بنفسها من الطابق العاشر في صيف 1997
Dramas, such as The Seagull (1896, revised 1898), and including "A Dreary Story" (1889) of Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, also Chekov, concern the inability of h…
Naguib Mahfouz (Arabic author profile: نجيب محفوظ) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He published over 50 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie scripts, and…
The saying that ‘The pen is mightier than the sword’ accurately describes the life-story of Sayyid Qutb ( سيد قطب ); who was an Egyptian prominent revivalist, ideologue, thinker, and a leading intelle…
كريم جمال؛ كاتب وباحث موسيقيّ، درَس الموسيقى العربية وحصل على دبلوم الدراسات العليا في العلوم السياسية من جامعة الإسكندرية، نشر العديد من المقالات والأبحاث حول الأدب العربي والتراث الغنائي والموسيقى ا…
Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian journalist, fiction writer, and a spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Kanafani died at th…
وُلِد محمد نعيم في عام 1977 بمدينة نصر شرق القاهرة لأسرة تهتمُّ بالشأن العام والثقافة كمعيارَيْن للجدارة الإنسانية. تخرَّج في كلية التجارة جامعة عين شمس، وعمل مُبكِّرًا في القطاع المالي والمصرفي داخل …
أحمد بن يوسف السيِّد (ولد 1985 م) داعية ومفكر سعودي، وباحث ومؤلف، والمشرف العام على أكاديمية الجيل الصاعد والبناء المنهجي، وله العديد من المؤلفات والأبحاث المطبوعة. رسالته الكبرى في الحياة تحصين الشبا…
