Bulaq 45: The Shape of Cairo
This episode is built around the architecture of twentieth century Cairo, and discuss the Egyptian capital’s past, present and future, and the way writers have shaped our view of it.
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On Mahmoud Darwish Day, 13 Poems
Here they are the words fluttering in the mind/
There’s a land in the mind with a heavenly name the words carry.
New Excerpt in Translation: Adel Esmat’s ‘The Days of Blue Windows’
“The only picture remaining of my grandmother is that mental image each of us has of her—personal images we each formed in the privacy of our own minds. How souls fragment and multiply when they depart this world! And now she inhabits that shifting existence, free to appear as she wishes.”
Coronavirus Caution Leads to Cancellation of Ceremony for 2020 International Prize for Arabic Fiction
This comes as the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair — set to take place from April 15-21 — has been postponed to the end of May as a “precautionary measure to protect public health.”
New Literary Prize Seeks Hybrid Work in Amharic, Arabic, English, Somali, Tigrinya
“The submitted texts can be written in any language, but must be accompanied by a translation into one of the Focus languages: Amharic, Arabic, English, Somali, Tigrinya.”
2020’s ‘One Book, Many Communities’ Selection: ‘The Book of Disappearance’
As in previous years, the official hashtag for the campaign is: #lap1book.
New in Translation, from ‘The Mystery of the Falcon’s Eye’
Ziad began to feel that there might be some truth in Sitti’s story after all. He pressed her to keep going. “And what happened next, Sitti?”
For 2020’s International Women’s Day: 8 New & Forthcoming Books by Women
This list-of-eight includes a range of novels, poetry collections, short-story collections, and graphic novels, translated from Arabic and from French.
Saturday Submissions: VIDA Lit Review
“The VIDA Review is currently able to pay those published under fiction, nonfiction, and poetry $15-$20 per author. This is a very small token but we are currently actively working on increasing funds so as to pay authors more.”