Arab and Arabic Literatures at the 2016 Edinburgh Book Festival
Hisham Matar, Ghassan Zaqtan, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Nada Awar Jarrar, Ahmed al-Malik and more.
Hisham Matar, Ghassan Zaqtan, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Nada Awar Jarrar, Ahmed al-Malik and more.
“The issue promises to launch mid-September.”
“She starts her journey by re-acquainting herself with Egyptian Arabic in Cairo in late 2011. “
“This weeks film is “A Touch of Fear” (1969), based on a novella of the same name by Egyptian “Knight of the Arabic Novel” Tharwat Abaza.”
“In film and on stage, the women courageously explore parallels between the ancient Greek tragedy and the catastrophe of today’s civil war.”
“Whatever else, the language” — and how it binds up the ways we see or don’t see those people we call “refugees” — “needs to change.”
“A collection of the best stories from the submissions will be released as an epub and available to download for free.”
“In his role as secretary general, Shousha has been critical of what he considers to be a decline in the quality of Arabic in Egypt, a problem he attributes to radio and television announcers, poor teaching standards and the lack of libraries in schools. Shousha has described the problem as ‘an issue of national security.'”
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