An Excerpt from Badriah al-Bishr’s ‘Love Stories on al-Asha Street’
“For a long time, we treated the phone like a strange guest.”
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Removing the Frame: Discussing Saud al-Sanousi’s ‘The Bamboo Stalk’
“Wright pointed out that the Arabic original was framed as a translation itself, supposedly from a notebook written in Tagalog.”
Emirati Author Eman Al Yousuf on Writing While Female
Again, a lot of male writers have written about women or have written from female points of view in their books, and they do so really well. But I think a woman can do it better.
In the President’s Gardens, Refusing to Forget Iraqi History
“All the events described in this novel were either directly experienced by the author or related to him by others. He assures us they are all real.”
Report: Algerian Novelist Anouar Rahmani Summoned by Police for His Fictional Characters’ Behavior
Apologies for mailing this out twice; it went out before it was ready: By Nadia Ghanem On February 28, young Algerian novelist Anouar Rahmani narrated on his Facebook wall how he […]
Friday Finds: ‘On Finding Music in al-Maʿarrī’s Poetry’
“When a chorus of voices sings words, I take the ensemble to be something of a cross-section of the society. The words in a choral piece carry a weight that, in my view, is different from the more personal medium of the solitary singer on stage because of the sheer number voices we perceive. It is public music. “
How to Donate to the ‘Library in Gaza’ Project
According to AFP, mail service was restored in December.
Tired of Cyberbullying and Fake Rebels? There’s Yassin Adnan’s ‘Hot Maroc’
“It’s a comedy, both in the modern and ancient senses of the word, where his author allows the reader a laugh off fictional lives and events in order to make us think about reality and its contradictions.”
In ‘The Drone Eats with Me,’ Reader Between Surveillor and Surveilled
“Here, we are confronted with the question: In our act of reading, are we down there with the narrator or are we up there with the drone?”