Meanwhile, in Italy: A Festival of Migrant Literature
The festival, which is set for October 12-16, promises “hundreds of guests, meetings, and shows in dozens of places in the city[.]”
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A Hundred and One Nights: Part of the ‘Tip of the Iceberg’ of Popular Arabic Tales
Bruce Fudge, Professor of Arabic at the University of Geneva and author of Qur’anic Hermeneutics: al-Tabrisi and the Craft of Commentary (2011), wanted to take a break from Qur’an commentary and “read all the things that religious scholars told you not to read.”
Yasmina Jraissati on Six New Must-Translate Arabic Novels
Among the authors on Jraissati’s fall list, only Dima Wannous doesn’t have a book in English translation.
Emirates Literature Foundation to Offer ‘School Librarian of the Year’ Award
Instead of a simple check, each winning librarian will receive “a trip to the Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter, flights and accommodation for four people, plus a visit to the British library, among other great prizes.”
Sunday Submissions: ‘Halal if You Hear Me’
“Editors Fatimah Asghar and Safia Elhillo are looking for poems and essays ‘on any theme.'”
‘Al-Multaqa Prize’ for the Short Story Announces Inaugural Longlist
Al-Multaqa Prize for the Short Story has announced its inaugural longlist, for collections published in 2015-2016: The new Kuwait-based prize is unusual in celebrating the overlooked short-story genre. As Jordanian […]
The Launch of KurdîLit
Although thus far it focuses only on Kurmanjî and Kurmanjkî, two dialects of Kurdish spoken in Turkey, the KurdîLit project promises to expand to Soranî and Goranî, enlarging the research and information about Kurdish writers across several nations.
Humphrey Davies Shortlisted for National Translation Award for Al-Shidyaq’s ‘Leg Over Leg’
“This is a book about books, about conventions of writing, reading, bookmaking, cultural creation and crossings, bristling with puns and long digressions about the “oddities of language, including its rare words”—a preoccupation that makes Davies’ translation all the more remarkable as a work of literature and scholarship both.”
‘Hello, Khareef!’ Short Readings from Beirut
“Seven of the writers read in English and one in Arabic: Mishka Mourani, Jehan Bseiso, Reem Rashash Shaaban, Marina Chamma, Kathy Shalhoub, Doyle Avant, Mohamad Shami, and Rewa Zeinati.”