A Look Back: Naguib Mahfouz on October 14, 1994
“On this day, October 14, 1994, Dr. Fathi Hashim waited outside to drive [Naguib Mahfouz] there. Yet Hashim wasn’t alone. Another young man was waiting outside with a concealed switchblade.”
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
Sunday Submissions: ALTA Arabic Mentorship
Applications are open through December 8, 2019, and the program is set to run from February-November, 2020, culminating at the ALTA conference in Tucson, AZ.
On Gender Stereotypes in Sudanese Fiction
“Malkat Addar Mohammad’s الفراغالعريض (The Wide Void) was the first novel by a Sudanese woman that was published in Arabic. Written in the early 1950s, it was only published in 1972.”
Friday Finds: ‘Dance’ by Widyan Almasarani
“You are my prison, you are my prison and my freedom, you are the one I hate and the one I love.”
Cover Reveal: Sahar Khalifeh’s ‘Bab al-Saha’ is ‘Passage to the Plaza’
Khalifeh’s classic novel is forthcoming next February 15 from Seagull Books in Sawad Hussain’s translation as “Passage to the Plaza.”
Tawfiq al-Hakim Day: Genius, Humorist, Misogynist, Grouch
The great Egyptian writer Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898-1987) was born on this day in Alexandria.
Khaled Khalifa’s ‘Death is Hard Work’ a National Book Award Finalist
Winners will be announced on November 20.
An Excerpt of ‘Malaz: City of Resurrection’
SF, fantasy, and YA author-translator Ahmed Samah Al-Mahdi shares a chapter from his novel Malaz.
In Kuwait: A Reading Marathon to Support Noncitizen Education
“It was fascinating to see the individual, private act of reading transform into a collective, public act of resistance by people from different age groups, nationalities, ethnicities, and political and religious values.”