For Indie Bookstore Day: 33 Great Arab Bookshops Recommended by Writers, Translators, and Scholars
“They have every Arabic book you can dream of.”
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
Friday Film: Based on Naguib Mahfouz’s ‘A Beginning and an End’
“This landmark work of Egyptian realism, the first of Abu Seif’s collaborations with Mahfouz, follows a widowed mother’s hellish struggle against poverty.”
Congratulations to Eight Emerging Arabic Novelists Who Won 2016 AFAC Grants
You can read more about their projects in Arabic and English at the AFAC website.
The Poem for Which Dareen Tatour’s Under House Arrest: ‘Resist, My People, Resist Them’
“Resist, my rebellious people.”
Dareen Tatour: ‘I Will Not Leave My Country’
“They signed for me
And turned me into
A file, forgotten”
Musical Group Mashrou’ Leila Banned from Jordan, Allegedly for Endorsing ‘Gender Equality and Sexual Freedom’
“We denounce the systemic prosecution of advocates of sexual and religious freedom.
“We denounce the censorship of artists anywhere in the world.”
Rabai al-Madhoun’s ‘Destinies’ Wins 2016 International Prize for Arabic Fiction
“Al-Madhoun, whose 2010 novel The Lady of Tel Aviv was also shortlisted for the IPAF, builds on the themes and characters of that earlier novel with Destinies.”
‘Freedom Hospital,’ Debut Syrian Graphic Novel ‘Being Acclaimed in France and Germany’
AFP calls the novel “[b]y turns harrowing, heart-breaking and funny[.]”
Hoopoe Fiction: Read Excerpts of the First Ten Titles
“I was approached by a young man smelling of soap—he seemed to me to have just had a bath and shaved—and gripping a long-barreled shotgun of local manufacture in his two clean hands.”