A piece that ran in Electronic Intifada yesterday, by Al-Aqsa University Professor Dr. Haidar Eid, asserts that the new cross-cultural dialogue series promised in Words Without Borders violates the call for boycott and divestment sanctions on Israel.
I’m a bit late on this as well, but last Wednesday, Syrian author Hanna Mina (his The Sail and the Storm is No. 14 on the “best 105 Arabic books list”) was awarded the Mohamed Zafzaf Prize for Arabic Literature.
I just noticed, courtesy of Susannah Tarbush, Fadia Faqir‘s recent post on how Arab and Arabic literature gets “lost in translation.” Faqir discusses the difficulty of being a writer or […]
Today marks the second anniversary of poet Mahmoud Darwish’s death.
The most disappointingly silent Egyptian blog—perhaps not for Abderrahmane Mustafa, author of “The Loss of Popularity of Egyptian Blogging,” but certainly for me—is Baheyya’s. Baheyya, who has a lovely writing […]
If you want your own Ahmad Yamani—in print, in English—you can of course pick the Beirut 39 collection (which features a few of his early works), or head back to […]
Poet/journalist Youssef Rakha has a lovely assessment of Ahmad Yamani’s work, and his position in contemporary Egyptian poetry, on the occasion of Yamani’s new book, Amakin Khati’ah. The piece was […]
The online journal Words Without Borders has put together another interesting edition of their “Words Without Borders Recommends” missive, their “quarterly tip sheet about WWB writers who we believe can […]
On August 7, Palestinian author Suad Amiry (Sharon and My Mother-in-Law, Nothing to Lose But Your Life) will appear on Riz Khan’s “One on One” on Al Jazeera English. According […]
