Tag: Egypt

Timrava’s Journey Continues as Banáš’s Novel Debuts in Arabic

May 2026. Jozef Banáš’s latest work, the novel The Silent Rebel about the first Slovak female writer Timrava, was published in Arabic at the end of May. The book was published by the Egyptian publishing house Saray for Culture and Arts in Cairo. The publishing house’s executive director Sara Abdeen said on this occasion: The story of Timrava carries a deeply human and universal significance that goes beyond its Slovak setting. At its core, it is not only the story of a writer, but the story of an individual who struggled to affirm her identity […]

The Egyptian edition of Idiots in Politics

August 5th, 2015 The satiric book Idioti v politike (Idiots in Politics) from Jozef Banáš has been published by Sefsafa Publishing House in Egypt these days. Following the novels Zóna nadšenia (The Jubilation Zone), Zastavte Dubčeka! (Stop Dubček!) and Kód 9 (Code 9), this title is the next one released abroad. Together with the novel Zóna nadšenia (The Jubilation Zone) published in India in the third most spoken language in the world – Hindi, the release of a book in Arabic – the fifth most spoken language in the world, signifies another Banáš´s breakthrough among […]