Why is the expansion of our Universe accelerating? Twenty-five years after its discovery, this phenomenon remains one of the greatest scientific mysteries. Solving it involves testing the fundamental ...

There is a notable absentee from this year's international book fair in Algiers -- the work of French-Algerian writer Kamel ...

In the same week Kamel Daoud was awarded the prestigious Prix Goncourt in France, he was excluded from the Arab world’s largest book fair held in Algeria. Host Carolyn Beeler looks at why he’s both ...

As one of the Arab world’s largest book fairs opens in Algeria on Wednesday, there is one conspicuous absence.

Algerian Kamel Daoud wins the Prix Goncourt for his novel Houris, a searing account of his country’s 1990s conflict.

French-Algerian writer Kamel Daoud on Monday won France's top literary prize, the Goncourt, for a novel centred on Algeria's ...

Established in 2009 by the French Embassy in China and French-speaking Chinese intellectuals, including Dong Qiang, author, ...

The massive 800-page collection includes messages written by the Nobel Prize winner around the time Lawrence WIlson was ...

They cannot and "will not work" with "Israeli cultural institutions..including publishers, festivals, literary agencies, and publications." And thus, with a single pen stroke they think they've slain ...

Since 1944, the mystery of how Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author of The Little Prince, went missing remained unsolved for decades. That was until the chance discovery of a bracelet by a fisherman ...

Minhtu Phan joined dozens of teachers at a French-language adult education centre in Quebec City on Friday morning as he held up a sign objecting to cutting French-language classes across the ...

They include: Advertisement -- Journalist Sarah Josepha Hale, author of "Mary Had a Little Lamb," in 1788 -- Attorney Belva Lockwood, the first woman candidate for U.S. president, in 1830 ...