June 2021

May 22, 2023 | 7:00 PM Cairo | 5:00PM London | 12:00PM New York Join us for a virtual book

May 17, 2023 | 7:00PM  Cairo | 5:00PM London | 12:00PM New York Join us for a virtual book talk

  Elizabeth Loudon’s debut novel, A Stranger in Baghdad,  longlisted for the Bridport Novel Award, is published by Hoopoe (May

Hoopoe sat down with Sherif Meleka, author of Suleiman’s Ring, (Hoopoe, March 2023), to find out more about what drove him to

Shahira  Yacout is a senior Arabic language instructor and Arabic Language Courses (ALNG) unit director in the Department of Arabic

Xenia Nikolskaya, author of Dust: Egypt’s Forgotten Architecture, Revised and Expanded Edition (AUC Press, 2022), will be in conversation with

Wednesday, February 15 7:00PM Cairo Time | 5:00PM London Time | 1:00PM New York Time  Zoom Event and Facebook Live

Wednesday 15 March 2023, at 7:00pm Cairo time, Virtual Event Register here for the Zoom discussion Mariam F. Ayad, editor

Mahmoud  Al-Ashiri is professor in Arabic at Georgetown University Qatar and a specialist in Arabic language acquisition and literary criticism.

Maha A.  Ghalwash is associate professor of Middle East history and politics at the British University in Egypt. Her research

Sherif  Meleka was born in 1958 into a Coptic Christian family in Alexandria, Egypt. A trained medical doctor, he emigrated

Melissa  Gatter is a lecturer in International Development at the University of Sussex, researching forced migration, aid, and time in

Brian  Wright is a research fellow at the American Research Center in Cairo, Egypt. His research focuses on the transformation

Alexander E.  Elinson is associate professor of Arabic and head of the Arabic program at Hunter College of the City

Khadija  Marouazi is a professor of literature at Ibn Tofaïl University in Kenitra, Morocco, and a human rights activist. She

Ahmed  Taibaoui is a professor at the Faculty of Economics, Business, and Management Sciences at the University of Bouira in

The Cairo Writers  Lab is an independent collective of writers based at The American University in Cairo.

Dina  Amin is director of the theater program and associate professor of theater at The American University in Cairo. She