Alex Adams was born in New Zealand, raised in Greece and Australia, and currently lives in Oregon--which is a whole lot like New Zealand, minus those freaky-looking wetas. Her debut novel, White Horse…
Haruki Murakami (村上春樹) is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been best-sellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold milli…
Emily Rodda (real name Jennifer Rowe) was born in Sydney, Australia and graduated from the University of Sydney in 1973 with an MA (Hons) in English Literature. Moving into a publishing career, first …
Kelley Armstrong has been telling stories since before she could write. Her earliest written efforts were disastrous. If asked for a story about girls and dolls, hers would invariably feature undead g…
Junji Itō (Japanese: 伊藤潤二, Ito Junji) is a Japanese cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his horror manga. Ito was born in Gifu Prefecture, Japan in 1963. He was inspired to make art from a young…
Alain de Botton is a writer and television producer who lives in London and aims to make philosophy relevant to everyday life. He can be contacted by email directly via www.alaindebotton.com
French essayist, philosophical theorist, and novelist, often called the "metaphysician of evil." Bataille was interested in sex, death, degradation, and the power and potential of the obscene. He reje…
Stefan Zweig was one of the world's most famous writers during the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the U.S., South America, and Europe. He produced novels, plays, biographies, and journalist pieces. Am…
سنان أنطون شاعر وروائي وأكاديمي ولد في بغداد عام ١٩٦٧. حصل على بكالوريوس في الأدب الإنكليزي من جامعة بغداد. هاجر بعد حرب الخليج ١٩٩١ إلى الولايات المتحدة حيث أكمل دراساته وحصل على الماجستير من جامعة جو…
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…
Sjón (Sigurjón B. Sigurðsson) was born in Reykjavik on the 27th of August, 1962. He started his writing career early, publishing his first book of poetry, Sýnir (Visions), in 1978. Sjón was a founding…
Juan José Millás is a Spanish writer and winner of the 1990 Premio Nadal. He was born in Valencia and has spent most of his life in Madrid where he studied Philosophy and Literature at the Universidad…
هو عبد الله بن المقفّع وكان اسمه روزبه قبل أن يسلم. ولد في حور في فارس لقب أبوه بالمقفع لتشنج أصابع يديه على اثر تنكيل الحجاج به بتهمة مد يده إلى أموال الدولة. درس الفارسية وتعلّم العربية في كتب الأدب…
ولد علي الطنطاوي في دمشق في 23 جمادى الأولى 1327 (12 حزيران (يونيو) 1909) لأسرة عُرف أبناؤها بالعلم، فقد كان أبوه، الشيخ مصطفى الطنطاوي، من العلماء المعدودين في الشام وانتهت إليه أمانة …
عزمي بشارة، المدير العام للمركز العربي للأبحاث ودراسة السياسات، ورئيس مجلس أمناء معهد الدوحة للدراسات العليا. مفكر وباحث عربي معروف، نشر الدكتور عزمي بشارة مئات الأوراق والدراسات والبحوث في دوريات علم…
صدر لإيمان مرسال 1995 ممرّ معتم يصلح لتعلّم الرقص، دار شرقيّات، القاهرة. طبعة أولى ١٩٩٥ 2004 طبعة ثانية بينما صدرت الطبعة الثالثة عن مكتبة الأُسرة في 2013 المشي أطول وقت مُمكن، دار شرقيّات، القاهرة 1997…
Kahlil Gibran (Arabic: جبران خليل جبران) was a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer. Born in the town of Bsharri in modern-day Lebanon (then part of Ottoman Mount Lebanon), as a young man he…
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…
(Arabic Profile إدوارد سعيد) Edward Wadie Said was a professor of literature at Columbia University, a public intellectual, and a founder of the academic field of postcolonial studies. A Palestinian A…
Justin Erik Halldór Smith is professor of philosophy in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Paris. In 2019-20, he was the John and Constance Birkelund Fellow at th…
دكتور أسامة عبد الرؤف الشاذلي – طبيب وكاتب وروائي مصري من مواليد عام ١٩٧٤. حصل على درجة الدكتوراة في جراحة العظام من جامعة عين شمس عام ٢٠٠٧. كما حصل على زمالة علاج الكسور من ألمانيا عام ٢٠٠٥. يعمل حال…
