The 8 Writers Chosen for 2019 International Prize for Arabic Fiction Nadwa
This year, half the writers were from GCC countries (Emirates, Oman, Kuwait), and half from the rest of the region (Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Morocco).
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‘Finally, Haji Jaber’s on an IPAF Longlist’
“The International Prize for Arabic Fiction’s tardy acknowledgment is better late than never.”
Friday Finds: Mazen Maarouf’s ‘Portion of Jam’
Dad comes home holding a little plastic portion of jam like the ones they give the patients in the hospital where he works. He holds it up in the air and says, ‘See the jam?’
‘Shatila Stories,’ ‘My Name is Adam’ Make €20K EBRD Lit-prize Longlist
A three-book shortlist is set to be announced on Feb. 18.
New: From the Stolen Autobiography of Naguib Mahfouz’s Childhood
In later years, he said that he had lost the manuscript due to a “family robbery,” when a relative pilfered papers from his old house and sold them off.
Habib al-Sayah: Cracking ‘the Shell of the Taboo Around Talking about Algerian Jews’
“My decision to write about that relationship was based in my conviction that Algerian Jews were an integral part of social, historical, and cultural elements; they spoke the same languages (Algerian, in Arabic or Amazigh dialects). They wore the same traditional clothing. They prepared the same foods. And they shared what was made. They played the same music. They sang the same songs. Only the two religions were different.”
The Popular Art and Poetry of Sudanese Protesters
“A bullet doesn’t kill, what really kills is the silence of the oppressed.”
Luke Leafgren Wins 2018 Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation
“The author is fortunate to have found a translator totally in sympathy with his writing.”
Pitfalls and Possibilities: Arabic Literature in Hindi at World Book Fair
“Much was made out of the potential linkages: there are approximately two million Indian expats working in the UAE; the UAE accounts for 37% of India’s total book exports to Arab-majority countries; and, aside from any particular ties, India is a $4.6 billion book market.”