Six authors — from the UAE, Lebanon, Egypt, Yemen, Palestine and Iraq — started their International Prize for Arabic Fiction-sponsored “masterclass” (yes, it was previously called a nadwa; perhaps that word was too hard for us English-language journos). Anyhow:
Banipal 45, available shortly, promises to bring a number of new Palestinian voices into English: In his introduction to the issue — which will be available shortly — Whiting-award-winning novelist […]
I hope I don’t harp on this too much, but (grown-up) comics are just…so…cool. The piece below ran in the Egypt Independent print edition, and is now online, with two elaborations from TokTok’s […]
Let’s say I arrived to the reading in medias res. It just sounds fancier than saying I arrived 15 minutes late (because of L.A. traffic) …
This November, Palestinian writer and poet Ibrahim Nasrallah will be on his first solo UK tour. (Schedule below.)
The ReOrient festival promises a number of wonderful plays, both old (Tawfiq al-Hakim’s “War and Peace,” trans. May Jayyusi and David Wright) and new (Amir al-Azraki’s “Stuck”). It’s set to […]
This originally appeared in Your Middle East, and works as a review of the new collection Tales of Encounter, trans. Rasheed El-Enany. Yusuf Idris, Egypt’s great playwright and genius of the short story, was […]
KRO has posted my review of Adania Shibli’s We Are All Equally Far from Love, but apparently the audio recording I made was too full of ambient noise, oops. I am a […]
I mean it. YOU. This is flash fiction — so yes, you can take the time to write, translate, or just suggest a story. The call begins with trumpets: For […]
