The Supreme Council for Culture who convened for the annual vote are some of Egypt's most celebrated writers, artists and thinkers, along with heads of the country's highest cultural and educational institutions

The famous actor, who had many strings to his bow, published a collection of the memoirs of a Cairo cab driver

Author Ahmed Khaled argues that the player is not a symbol of Islam, neither its representative nor an Islamic model; he is 'just a football player'

Michael Hurley is completing a voyage from France to the Caribbean to North America with a first mate who is engaged to be his wife

Roth's literary agent, Andrew Wylie, told The Associated Press that he died in a New York City hospital of congestive heart failure.

On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the birth of the founder of communism, here are 10 books in Arabic on the man and his thought

President of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Mostafa Al-Feki talks to Dina Ezzat about his profiles of people that sum up the recent history of Egypt