Dar Shorouq is considered the first Egyptian publishing house to have participated in the Frankfurt Book Fair and the Bologna Children's Book Fair. Publications Dar Shorouq publishes a number of Arab writers including Naguib Mahfouz, Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, Ahmed Zewail, Tharwat Okasha, Zaki Naguib Mahmoud, Tawfiq al-Hakim, Mohammed al-Ghazali, Yusuf Idris, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Mahmud Shaltut, Salah Abdel Sabour, Anis Mansour, Fahmi Huwaidi, Ahmed Bahgat, Rajaa an-Niqaash, Muhammad Salmawi, Abdel Wahab El-Messiri, Radwa Ashour, Mourid Barghouti, Tamim al-Barghouti, Farouk Gouida, Gamal El-Ghitani, Galal Amin, Ibrahim Aslan, Ahmed Khaled Tawfik, Alaa Al Aswany, Ahmed Mourad, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Abd al-Wahhab Al-Bayati, Muhammad Imara, Mohamed Makhzangi, Ibrahim Abdel Meguid, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Ahmed Asmat Abdel-Meguid, Mohammad Salim Al-Awa, Tarek El-Bishry, Ahmad Fathi Sorour, and others. Dar Shorouq also publishes works translated into Arabic.