Friday Finds: Two Newly Translated Stories by Radwa Ashour
“He was sitting, motionless, his face frozen as though sculpted from stone, staring into nothingness as though he had lost his hearing or his sight.”
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Watan, Best Source of Palestinian Book Swag, Opens Studio Saturday
“Watan, for me, is a way to teach others what I’m learning as well — in a sort of an easily digestible way in a hypervisual and overloaded world.”
International Prize for Arabic Fiction Introduces ‘New Quota System’ for Publishers
So, from the 2018 Prize year onwards, IPAF organizers are introducing a new “quota system” that privileges large and established publishers, whereby the number of books each publisher can submit “will depend on that publisher’s inclusion in longlists over the previous five years[.]”
Winners of Qatar’s Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation Include Michael Cooperson, Salvador Peña Martín, Banipal
According to the Sheikh Hamad Award website, $200,000 is awarded in each category. In each, there is a first prize ($100,000), a second ($60,000), and a third ($40,000).
Naguib Mahfouz Medal Winner Adel Esmat on How to Know the Truth of What You Write
“Finally, I thank those who selected my novel for this prize: you have awarded me a moment of joy, of which I was most in need.”
Adel Esmat Wins 2016 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature for Depiction of Coptic Life, Art
“The candid depiction of the worsening situation of Egyptian Christians and their alienation in their own country is touching and sensitively written,” prize judge Rasheed El-Enany wrote in his remarks.
Winner of 2016 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature Set to be Announced Today
“The year’s judges are Tahia Abdel Nasser, Shereen Abouelnaga, Humphrey Davies, Rasheed El-Enany, and Mona Tolba.”
Indecency and Influence on December 11, Naguib Mahfouz Day
Most recently — less than a month ago, in late November — Mahfouz made news when crank MP Abul Maaty Mustafa said, at a parliamentary debate, that “Naguib Mahfouz deserves punishment” for “violating public decency.”
Trouble in the Classroom : Education and Moroccan Literature in French
What’s going on in the fictional Moroccan classroom?