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Novelist

Cover of Haitham Hussein’s “Qad la yabqa ahad.”

Syrian novelist Haitham Hussein converses with Agatha Christie

Muslim women

Cover of Saadia Zahidi’s “Fifty Million Rising.”

‘Fifty Million Rising’ sheds light on Muslim women at the workplace

Dunia El-Zobaidi

Oman

The cover of Linda Pappas Funsch’s “Oman Reborn: Balancing Tradition and Modernization.”

Oman’s quest to balance ‘tradition and modernisation’

Hussein Shehadeh

books

The cover of Alexander Bevilacqua’s “The Republic of Arabic Letters.”

When Islam met Western enlightenment

Syria

“The Merchant of Syria: A History of Survival" by Diana Darke

Another lens to view Syria: its merchants

Rashmee Roshan Lall

tunisia

Visitors browse books at the CREDIF stall at the Tunis International Book Fair. (CREDIF)

Tunis book fair puts spotlight on women’s writing

Egypt

Haitham al-Hajj, head of the General Egyptian Book Organisation. (GEBO)

Despite hardships, head of Egypt’s book organisation holds on to optimism

Hassan Abdel Zaher

Ibn Khaldun

Cover of Robert Irwin’s “Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography.”

Rediscovering Ibn Khaldun, a pioneering Arab medieval mind

Hijab

Cherif Choubachy

Call on Egyptian women to remove hijab provokes a heated debate

Hassan Abdel Zaher