A new online portal has launched with the aim of boosting English language learning online for Middle East students. Inglisi.com is currently the only online website offering free courses for Arabic speakers. According to a press release sent to Bikyamasr.com, “course material for Inglisi.com was developed by Oxford & Cambridge Universities and Trinity College of [...]
Goa (INDIA): The chief minister of the Western Indian state of Goa has said that he was planning to pen a ‘bestselling’ memoir on his political life, which he claims will be a hilarious read, because politics and governance in one of India’s smallest states are sometimes extremely “comic”. “I am now thinking of [...]
CAIRO: The Egyptian Publishers Association said this week that the ministry of interior confiscated some 19,000 “fake books” and referred the case to the prosecution. This came after three weeks of the Association`s announcement to begin preparing a black list of counterfeit book publishers, under a plan designed “to combat the sale of counterfeit books.” [...]
CAIRO: Thanks to Lenin’s writings, the Russian language is the world’s most translated language, according to UNESCO. The UN body said that data collected since 1979 included over two million books from 500 writers from 148 countries, and Lenin came in the top five along with William Shakespeare, Agatha Christie and Stephen King. Lenin’s books [...]
CAIRO: Alexandria is a city of culture, learning and especially imagination. It is where Euclid developed geometry, where Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the Earth, and where Egypt’s revolutionary flame was ignited last year with the death of Khaled Said. Near mystical tales of Cleopatra VII and Alexander the Great are set in this trading [...]
Johannesburg (dpa) – Tech company Google has teamed up with South Africa’s Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory (NMCM) to create an online archive of photos and documents pertaining to the anti-Apartheid icon, according to an announcement on Tuesday. The free archive is divided into the various eras in the life of Mandela, who after 27 [...]
A new children’s book is about to be on the shelves, but it’s not your average Cat in the Hat. It teaches kids about veganism. It’s called Vegan Is Love: Having Heart and Taking Action, and it’s all about introducing young readers to veganism as not only a diet choice but as a lifestyle of [...]
New Delhi (dpa) – British author Salman Rushdie lashed out at Pakistani cricket captain-turned-politician Imran Khan, describing him as a “dictator in waiting,” media reports said Sunday. Rushdie was speaking at a conference in New Delhi from which Khan, founder of the popular Pakistan Movement for Justice (PTI) party withdrew, saying “he did not dream [...]
Mexico City/Bogota (dpa) – Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, turned 85 Tuesday. Garcia Marquez, affectionately known as Gabo, celebrated his birthday early, on Sunday, with a cake decorated with yellow butterflies at the Mexico City home of his friend Jose Luis Cortes. His friend Alvaro [...]
The Road to Tahrir: front line images by Six Young Egyptian Photographers. Photographers: Sherif Assaf, Omar Attia, Rehab K. El Dalil, Timothy Kaldas, Zee Mo & Monir El-Shazly. Text by Omar Attia and Timothy Kaldas. This gripping photo essay of the January 25 Revolution in Egypt was shot by and narrated from the perspective of [...]
Manning Marable. Malcolm X: a life of reinvention. The 1965 assassination of Malcolm X was different from the killings of other American leaders of that era. John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy were killed by lone gunmen whom struggled with emotional disorders, and had no professional involvement with their targets. [...]
John Calvert. Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islam. ISBN 978 977 416 1 0. Dar el Kutub No. 24548/10. Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser hanged Sayyid Qutb for sedition in 1966. This was because of Qutb’s activity in the Muslim Brotherhood, and his Islamist hard-line publications, in which Qutb identified the state as [...]
Robert and Dayna Baer. The Company We Keep: a husband-and-wife true-life spy story. Bob Baer has lived an intensely interesting life as a CIA field operative. His most recent book, co-written with his wife Dayna, a former CIA shooter (trained in firearms for assassination), talks about the isolation and loneliness that comes with long overseas [...]
C. J. Chivers. The Gun: The AK-47 and the Evolution of War. Mikhail Kalashnikov was a sergeant in the Red Army when his design team won Stalin’s contest to develop a new machine gun. The acronym, AK-47, stands for Avtomat Kalashnikova, ‘the automatic by Kalashnikov’ – the year was 1947. The AK-47, with its distinctive [...]
The Wayward Spy. Roger Croft. Roger Croft starts his espionage novel in 1992 England. The main character, Michael Vaux is attempting to buy a bungalow on the same suburban street on which he grew up—hoping to retire peacefully, spending his golden years looking out at his backyard garden, and with a pleasant view of an [...]
CAIRO: An event named “Kids Read” will take place on Thursday at Cairo’s Al-Azhar park. Through storytelling, games and workshops, the event hopes to foster enthusiasm for reading among children in Cairo. “This event is a fantastic way to show kids that reading is fun and to get them excited about books. Reading is a [...]
Cry Havoc by Simon Mann. John Blake Publishing Ltd. 2011. 338 pps. $24.99. ISBN: 978 1 84358 403 2. In 2004, Simon Mann was arrested in Zimbabwe, en route to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea. For his role in that failed coup attempt, Mann served four years in a Zimbabwean prison and was then [...]
New York (dpa) – Harry Potter author J K Rowling is working on a new book, publisher Little, Brown and Company said Thursday. But young fans of the teenage wizard may be disappointed in the announcement made on the publisher’s Facebook page. The new book will be the author’s first adult novel and may be [...]
SINGAPORE: A British sex education book has been barred from sale in Malaysia after the country said the volume had “graphic illustrations.” Britain’s Home Affairs Ministry confirmed the halting of the book’s sale in Malaysia on Wednesday. The office said it would temporarily stop the sale of the book Where Did I Come From to [...]
CAIRO: “Egyptians are killing one another” were the last words uttered by Galal Amer, Egypt’s wise and witty writer, who left the world early on Sunday morning at a hospital in Alexandria after he suffered a heart attack a few days earlier. Amer was watching footage of clashes between pro- and anti-military council protesters before [...]
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