On the Scottish Bilingual Publishing House ‘Sunono’ & the Importance of Chapter Books for Kids
’10/11 Heralds the Turning of a Page’: Sandra Hetzl & Katharine Halls on Their New Literary Agency
Arabic Literature for Young Readers: 10 Publishers to Know
Fiction
Short Fiction in Translation: Ghassan Kanafani’s ‘The Crucified Sheep’
New Fiction in Translation & an Author Talk: Said Khatibi’s ‘The End of the Sahara’
Short Fiction in Translation: Najwa Binshatwan’s ‘The Eavesdropper’
Poetry
Monday Poetry: Two Readings by Mona Kareem and Sara Elkamel
Sunday Submissions: Modern Poetry in Translation ‘Water’ Focus
Summer Reads: ‘Rice Pudding for Two’
“Take a pinch of cinnamon with one hand and a pinch of vanilla with the other; delicately sprinkle both into the mixture. Now rub your hands together and bring your attention to your neck, patting your palms against it. This detail is essential for a good rice pudding.”
Interviews
On the Scottish Bilingual Publishing House ‘Sunono’ & the Importance of Chapter Books for Kids
’10/11 Heralds the Turning of a Page’: Sandra Hetzl & Katharine Halls on Their New Literary Agency
‘I Cannot Ignore the Pain in People’s Faces’: Badriyah al-Badri on Writing About Expatriate Workers in Oman
Country Focus
From the archives
14th-Century Cookbook ‘Profoundly Rich Resource for Egyptian Culinary Heritage’
“Our anonymous author was most probably a gourmet cook himself but not necessarily a professional cook. He might have had a profession like those people to support his family, and wrote about cooking, his passion.”
Jonathan Smolin on the Relationship Between Ihsan Abdel Kouddous’s Politics and His Novels
“My book really is an examination of how he participated in the coup ,and how he believed fundamentally that the Free Officers were going to install democracy, and—once he realized that they were actually installing military dictatorship—the way he dissented, in the editorials and in person, the way that he was jailed, and the way he turned to fiction to express his dissent directly to Nasser.”
‘When Darkness Falls’: On the Shortened, Brilliant Life of Iraqi Author Hayat Sharara
“The word eib rings in my head, it is eib to love, to sing, to get sick, to divorce, to show your emotions…and.…and. I felt these social chains were burdening me with fear, despair, and confusion, and I almost abandoned work on the book, but when I looked at the materials that I had collected, I knew that if I didn’t publish it now, it would never be published.”