AUCPress Launches New Imprint for ‘Engaged, Open-minded Readers’
“From historical epics, social satire, police procedurals and stories of the future Middle East: we will publish the exciting and the unexpected.”
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
March 2016: Global Arab and Arabic Literary Events Calendar
Arab and Arabic literary events in some form of translation.
Cooking with Naguib Mahfouz
“It’s no surprise that the introduction of a new family member brings a change in culinary repertoire.”
Friday Films: 20 Great Movies Based on Great Novels
“[A]nd most of all, they laugh.”
Women in Translation (from Arabic): Does It Matter?
“Saudi Arabia was the only Arab-majority country where Three Percent found more women’s work translated than men’s.”
Egyptian Writers’ and Artists’ Statement Against the Imprisonment of Novelist Ahmed Naji
“We, the undersigned, have been following with anxiety the continued deterioration in the performance of the organs of the State, the increase of oppressive practices, the attacks on public, personal, academic and artistic freedoms and the string of incidents that embarrass the country in front of the international community – at a time when Egypt badly needs to be part of this community.”
Egypt’s Townhouse Gallery Might Be Facing New Censorship Rules
“It’s a matter of being able to control the activities and programming that take place – music, performance, talks, visual art.”
Translator Samah Selim on Being Haunted by the Author’s Ghost
“If I’m reading a book and I think halfway through, ‘wow, I might like to translate this’ it’s usually because the architecture of the book is building to a powerful crescendo of meaning.”
Swell of Solidarity with Novelist Ahmed Naji, Sentenced to Two Years for Harming ‘Public Morals’
“Mohamed Hashem called on writers and readers to attend an open meeting at Merit on Monday at 4 p.m.”