Reem Bassiouney Wins the 2024 Sheikh Zayed Book Award
April 14, 2024
Egyptian writer Reem Bassiouney, the author of Mortal Designs (AUC Press, 2016), was awarded the 2024 Sheikh Zayed Book Award in the Literature category.
Category: Awards
Awards
Time and Power: 2023 Alixa Naff Prize Winner
February 13, 2024
AUC Press author Melissa Gatter has won the 2023 Alixa Naff Prize in Migration Studies for her “timely, innovative, and theoretically sophisticated contribution to studies of displacement” in her book… READ MORE
February: A Month of Heartfelt Reminders
February 11, 2024
February: A Month of Heartfelt Reminders.
“I love the heart… It’s such a beautiful, efficient, noble organ.””—Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub, widely known as “The Heart Savior.”
Introducing the Judging Panel for the 2024 Award
January 24, 2024
Introducing the Judging Panel for the 2024 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature.
A committee of distinguished judges, encompassing a wealth of literary expertise, will assess the submissions and announce the shortlisted novels on 30 August 2024.
Ibrahim al-Koni named ‘Cultural Personality of the Year’ at SIBF 2023
November 13, 2023
Ibrahim al-Koni, the highly acclaimed Libyan novelist and finalist for the Man Booker International Prize, was named the ‘Cultural Personality of the Year’ for the 42nd edition of the Sharjah International Book Fair 2023 (SIBF 2023).
The 2024 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature Opens for Submission
November 12, 2023
Submissions are invited for the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature 2024, any time between 15 November 2023 and 15 January 2024.
‘The Men Who Swallowed the Sun’ joint-winner of 2022 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize
January 11, 2023
On January 12, the Banipal Trust announced that the late Humphrey Davies, translator of The Men Who Swallowed the Sun by the award-winning novelist Hamdi Abu Golayyel, published by Hoopoe Fiction in 2022, is… READ MORE
Fatma Qandil Awarded 2022 Mahfouz Medal
December 11, 2022
On December 11, AUC Press announced the award of the 2022 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature to the Egyptian writer Fatma Qandil for her debut novel Aqfas farigha (Empty Cages). The award… READ MORE
Translator Sarah Enany wins 2021 Banipal Prize for ‘The Girl with Braided Hair’
December 1, 2022
The winner of the 2021 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize is Rasha Adly’s novel, Shaghaf, “superbly translated” into English by Sarah Enany as The Girl with Braided Hair, published by Hoopoe… READ MORE
