Excerpt: Rabee Jaber’s ‘The Birds of Holiday Inn’
It seems a fairly safe bet that Rabee Jaber’s 2011 novel طيور الهوليداي إن (The Birds of Holiday Inn) will be on the longlist for the 2013 International Prize for Arabic […]
November 2012
‘Write, Even If It’s Imaginary’
In between other books, I have been browsing my way through the collection Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, ed. Beau Beausoleil and Deema Shehabi. There are dozens of moments that have pricked […]
Deadlines Approaching (So Don’t Delay): Translation Grants, Author and Translator Residencies
Dar al-Ma’mûn, the NEA, and PEN — like the HOT — have deadlines approaching. # RESIDENCIES: Dar al-Ma’mûn’s Omar Berrada notes that the organization was granted the Unesco-Aschberg label for 2013, […]
Ali Ferzat to Relaunch His Satirical Magazine, Al-Domari, in Egypt
Reuters and Al Ahram Hebdo both report that the great Syrian satirical cartoonist, Ali Ferzat, plans to re-launch al-Domari, or The Lamplighter, in Cairo.
December’s House of Translation Workshop: ‘Translation & New Media’
You can download the application in Arabic or in English.