Poet, translator, and human being Khaled Mattawa recently spent some time in Tripoli, Libya helping to organize an international poetry festival that will be held in Libya next month. Upon […]
Banipal has now published excerpts from all the 2012 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF)-shortlisted novels: Two separate excerpts of Rabee Jaber’s The Druze of Belgrade have appeared (in Banipal 41, 43) […]
Last summer, award-winning translator Katy Derbyshire, the author of “love german books,” shared a manifesto that came out of a translators’ workshop. She called it the “Wolfenbüttel Manifesto – 10 […]
With new issues out from Jadaliyya and Banipal, it was time to poke around the Internet for new stories, poems, novel excerpts, memoir fragments and more in translation. NOVEL EXCERPTS From The City […]
Iraqi writer Faris Adnon spent 30 years crafting poetry. But this, he says, is no longer the time for poetry. By Faris Adnon Zuhair Al-Jazairi, editor in chief of the […]
There’s a lengthy Q&A with Egyptian novelist Sonallah Ibrahim in Banipal 43, which just arrived at my PO box. The wide-ranging interview, conducted by AUC history professor Camilo Gomez-Rivas, opens with […]
Yesterday, I read “Baghdad marketplace oasis holds ‘Iraq of dreams’” in the International Herald Tribune and was struck by a dizzy feeling of déjà vu. Hadn’t I read this story […]
Even in the e-book world, book covers are still an important business. A crummy design signals, to the reader, a crummy book. And an incredible design can cut through a […]
Artists and writers who are “from, and working in, the Middle East” are invited to apply for an 8-week residency in Vermont that includes travel, housing, meals, health insurance (important!), […]
