©2012 IPAF – Shaaman Film director: Kheridine Mabrouk. Courtesy: www.arabicfiction.org This wonderful short film visits with the six authors shortlisted for the 2012 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF), and each […]
Ibrahim Nasrallah’s The Time of White Horses, trans. Nancy Roberts, has just been released (April 2012) by AUC Press. The book, which was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction […]
Mohamed-Salah Omri (pictured left) who grew up in Tunisia, teaches modern Arabic literature at St. John’s College, Oxford. In the most recent issue of boundary 2, he writes about “A Revolution of Dignity […]
If you’re in Cairo, do stop in at this event: Translating the revolutionary spirit into images, translating those images into words (in Arabic and from there into English). When I […]
Today marked the opening of the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, and its first cultural events began this afternoon. The opening of the fair was quiet as publishers finished setting […]
Lebanese novelist Rabee Jaber won the 2012 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF, or “Arabic Booker”) for his novel Druze of Belgrade. (Story in Egypt Independent.) Although the judges seemed satisfied with […]
If you’re in Qatar over the next few days: And if you’re in the UAE, I hope to see you tonight, when the winner(s) of the International Prize for Arabic […]
Some activists reportedly have called for a protest outside the Dar el Shorouk publishing house, demanding that the house lower their book prices.
