Two awards this week for authors who hail from the Levant: On Wednesday, Lebanese poet Venus Khoury-Ghata won the prestigious 2011 Goncourt Prize for poetry and on Thursday, the incisive Syrian cartoonist Ali Farzat was […]
Sotheby’s in London is scheduled to auction off what it’s calling “a major cache of manuscripts by Naguib Mahfouz.” The archive, being estimated at £50,000 – £70,000, is set to […]
Recently, a U.S.-based professor and I were discussing the possibility of teaching Ali Bader’s The Tobacco Keeper (in translation) to undergraduates. Or rather, I suggested the novel, and she – after […]
By Margaret Litvin “Didn’t I tell you?” the colonel’s daughter Fayza al-Tuhami tells the semi-conscious protagonist of Mohamed Mansi Qandil’s Qamar ʻAla Samarqand (Moon Over Samarqand). “Those soldiers, they’re always […]
Publisher, educator, and graphic novelist Anna Mudd recently attended the 30th Sharjah International Book Fair, where she collaborated with a number of prominent Arab graphic novelists. She writes: As one […]
Jabbour Douaihy, whose acclaimed novel June Rain was shortlisted for the inaugural International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2008, is on the 2012 IPAF longlist again for The Vagrant. Douaihy, whose […]
It was December 1996 when the American University in Cairo Press (AUCP) first presented the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature. The first award went to two Egyptians: Latifa al-Zayyat, for […]
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Ahmed AlKilabi, who earned his first degree in English literature from the University of Baghdad in 1974 and went on to become a Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, commented recently […]
