All-female Final for First-ever Emirates Novel Award, Novella Category
I’m late to this, but the first ever Emirates Novel Award (@UAENovelAward) announced three finalists for its Best Short Novel (17,000 – 40,000 words) category last Thursday.
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Fund-raising for Burnt ‘Al-Saeh Library’ Expands to Cities in US, Crowd-funding Campaign
The Jan. 3 arson attack on the historic al-Saeh Library bookshop in Lebanon’s northern city of Tripoli — which destroyed thousands or perhaps tens of thousands of books and manuscripts — has galvanized support in Lebanon and worldwide.
January 2014: Arab and Arabic Literary Events Around the World
Better late than never: ArabLit starts a global events calendar.
Where Are Oman’s Authors?
When Abdulaziz al-Farsi’s unusual but compelling Earth Weeps, Saturn Laughs appeared in English last year (trans. Nancy Roberts), it was one of the first Omani novels to find an audience in English. But Omani literature isn’t just hard to find in English, but in Arab countries as well.
Palestinian Writer Suad Amiry Wins Italy’s Nonino Prize for Promoting Peace
Sharp, funny Palestinian writer Suad Amiry has won one of Italy’s Nonino prizes — along with Portugeuse novelist Antonio Lobo Antunes, Italian psychiatrist Giuseppe Dell’Acqua, and French philosopher Michel Serres — for “her work to promote peace.”
Re-reading Sonallah Ibrahim
Sonallah Ibrahim — as Elliott Colla writes in a recent piece for Jadaliyya — has been “arguably the most politically and aesthetically autonomous writer working in Egypt” over the last several decades. So what does it mean when Ibrahim, like more than a hundred other Egyptian authors, signs on to a public statement declaring the Muslim Brotherhood an unpatriotic organization? Colla re-reads.
‘For Every Fox, An End’: By Zakariya Tamer
Here, a new translation of a story published in 1985, a year when presidential elections were held in Syria and there was only one candidate, Hafez al-Assad. He won a reported 100% of the vote.
Understanding a Revolution through Iconography: Tunisian Political Cartoonist_Z_
Neila Columbo recently listened to and met with _Z_, the Tunisian political cartoonist who blogs at http://www.debatunisie.com/.
Pass it On: Grants for Syrian Artists Living in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, or Iraq
According to the British Council call for applications, this is open to “any art form,” which presumably includes writing, theatre productions, and other arts.