The New Republic
The Man Booker International Prize Goes Global but Lands Back Home
The Guardian
Tunisian novel wins ‘Arabic Booker’ in Abu Dhabi despite UAE ban
Quartz
An investment firm is trying to award its “Emerging Voices” prize to already-famous writers
Al Jazeera
ISIL torches Iraqi history in Mosul
The mysterious fall and rise of the Arab crime novel
The National
Can Arabic literature ever be fully understood in English?
Don’t judge books by their cover – especially Arab works in translation
Qantara
Najwa Barakat on Arabic literature: Combating the desertification of Arab culture
The Chicago Tribune
Review: ‘The Corpse Exhibition,’ by Hassan Blasim
M Lynx Qualey discusses the Palestine Festival of Literature
Warscapes
Two Open Windows: Why this is the day to read “African Titanics”
Vanity Fair
Months After Gunman’s Rampage, Some of Chapel Hill’s Muslims Still Live in Fear
Chimurenga Chronic
Foreign Policy
The Minneapolis Star Tribune
FICTION: “As Though She Were Sleeping,” by Elias Khoury
Jadaliyya
Gulf Women’s Writing: On Slavery, Migrant Labor, and Statelessness
Africa is a Country
Words Without Borders
The Poet Cannot Stand Aside: Arabic Literature and Exile
The Believer
Review of Leïla Marouane’s The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris
Review of Sonallah Ibrahim’s Stealth
AGNI
Beer in the Snooker Club: Egypt Then and Now
The Kenyon Review
Geography and One’s Own Room: Adania Shibli’s We Are All Equally Far from Love
Al Masry Al Youm
In other words: The things a word carries
‘A Tunisian Tale’: A grim delight
Soueif’s ‘Cairo: My City’ spins stories within stories to keep a revolution alive
Other work in Women’s Review of Books, American Book Review, Critical Muslim, Full Stop, Missing Slate, Free Word Centre, Publishing Perspectives, Asymptote, Quarterly Conversation, and elsewhere, including the places that lift it without permission, which is fine, and those places that modify it without permission, which is not fine.