Summer Challenge Review: For Bread Alone, Mohamed Choukri
Summer reading challenge participant Winston’s Dad (at least that’s the name of his blog, although his first name seems to be Stu) has posted a review of Mohamed Choukri’s For […]
July 2010
Publishing Perspectives Looks at Arabic Graphic Novels
After dropping in on a recent YA-writing workshop in Cairo, translator/commentator Chip Rosetti published the first of a two-part series for the online magazine Publishing Perspectives about Arabic graphic novels.
Competition May Drive Cairo’s Booksellers to Seek New, Lower-income Buyers
In a generally depressing article in Al Masry Al Youm about the few Cairenes who are targeted by the new bookstore boom (those “who can afford to shop for expensive Arabic and foreign books while sipping a cappuccino and savoring a marble cake”), I found this exciting gem:
But as competition is getting harsher in Cairo, [Diwan co-founder Hind] Wassef and some of her counterparts are contemplating searching for new markets outside the capital city and targeting readers with thinner wallets.
In Cairo, Audience Disapproval Leads to Censorship of Play
Last week, the “BuSSy” (بصي) project staged its fifth annual performance exploring women’s lives in Egypt. The series of stories, titled “Look!” and originally inspired by The Vagina Monologues, took […]
July Words Without Borders: New Story by Anouar Benmalek
The July 2010 issue of Words Without borders—Sports—features an interesting story titled “Penalty” by Moroccan-French author Anouar Benmalek. This is not, of course, “Arabic literature,” as Benmalek writes in French. […]
First Arabic Book for the iPhone: Test it Now
I am still on the road (and a long road to follow), baffled and jetlagged, but saw an update from developer Salman S. Qadeer just now, to the effect that […]
Travels
I will be traveling a bit over the next few days, although not as much as Ibn Battouta (green line) or even so much as Marco Polo (red line).
Authorship and /The Memoirs of Randa the Trans/
The AFP article about The Memoirs of Randa the Trans has been making its way around English-speaking papers; yesterday, it was in The Independent; I believe I also saw it […]
Another Book-Challenge Review: Yalo, by Elias Khoury
The blogger over at “Winston’s Dad” has reviewed Yalo, by Elias Khoury, over on his blog—his first selection for the summer reading challenge. His rating was: “Rattler live in hot […]