A cheer went up in the conference hall when the winner to the 2014 International Prize for Arabic Fiction was announced: It was Iraqi novelist Ahmed Saadawi for his novel, Frankenstein in Baghdad. The cheers were echoed across social media.
On Tuesday night, International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) judging chair Saad Albazei announced that Iraqi author Ahmed Saadawi had won the 2014 award for his novel Frankenstein in Baghdad.
This evening in Abu Dhabi, the winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction will be announced. There are six titles in contention — books by Abdelrahman Lahbibi, Ahmed Mourad, Ahmed […]
Lebanese poet, novelist, and scholar Rula Jurdi released her first poetry collection last fall. These three poems are from Jurdi’s 2013 debut, Ghilaf al-Qalb (The Heart’s Peel), published by Dar Nelson in Beirut, and were translated by Michelle Hartman.
Hassan Blasim’s “The Nightmares of Carlos Fuentes,” like a number of Blasim’s short stories, has strong dramatic elements. Previously turned into an audio story for Spoken Ink, “The Nightmares,” trans. Jonathan Wright, has now inspired a play by Rashid Razaq.
For the final interview in our series on International Prize for Arabic Fiction shortlistees, Amira Abd El Khalek talks to Ahmed Mourad about his editing process, why comparing a book to a film version is like comparing poetry to swimming, and how — if he were going to switch genres — he might like to write a romance.
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If there is a single author who should be associated with contemplation of the relationship between humanity and the desert, and the desert and creative writing — post-Ibn Khaldun — it is Libyan novelist Ibrahim al-Koni. He recently spoke with the Louisiana Channel in an interview titled “In the desert we visit death.”
In his latest book, A Rare Blue Bird that Flies with Me — shortlisted for this year’s International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) — Moroccan writer Youssef Fadel takes the reader on a vividly imaginative odyssey through a dark period in Morocco’s history. Al-Mustafa Najjar talked to the author
