Ibrahim Abdelmeguid’s ‘Beyond Writing’ Wins 2016 Sheikh Zayed Book Award
Beyond Writing “provides a creative view of the political, social and cultural contexts within which the books were written.”
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Special Issue of Refugee Poetry, MPT Launches ‘The Great Flight’
“The issue also includes work by five Assyrian Iraqi poets, the great Algerian poet-translator-scholar Habib Tengour, and Algerian poet and novelist Mohammed Dib.”
Women Write War: 4 Books
“Is there a difference between men’s and women’s war stories?”
Digital Hats, Analog Ambitions: Staging Hassan Blasim
“The open war that ‘The Digital Hats Game’ hackers are fighting is both one of endless and borderless possibilities and one where they also expose themselves to uninvited invasions.”
Saturday Submissions: ‘Rhino,’ the National Translation Award, and Other Calls for Poetry
They specifically request translations that “move, experiment, provoke, play, compel, sing.”
Friday Films: ‘The Dupes,’ Inspired by Ghassan Kanafani’s ‘Men in the Sun’
“The film was released the same year Kanafani was assassinated by a car bomb.”
PEN America Honors Ahmed Naji with 2016 PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award
The award “honors individual writers who have fought courageously in the face of adversity for their right to freedom of expression.”
April 2016: Global Arab and Arabic Literature Events
Including the launch of Ahlem Mosteghanemi’s new book in London, a theatre festival in Jenin, and more.
Coming Soon, ‘Tajdeed: Contemporary Arabic Stories in Translation’
“Tajdeed will provide American and international readers with fresh insight into the themes and innovative forms of contemporary Arabic writing.”