For Senior Dubai Officials, ‘The More You Read, The More You Earn’
These department heads can receive a “skill allowance” of up to 10 percent of their salary for reading a book from a list of 165 and writing a report.
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Eşref Feyyâd: ‘Petrolün Kan Üzerindeki Faziletleri’
“Siyah petrol kürleri
Dolaşıyor hücrelerinde
Ve sağaltıyor kusarak kurtulamadığın şeyi.”
Yasmine Motawy on the Growing Space for Arabic Literature for Young People, Globally
“Egypt, Kuwait, Lebanon, Palestine, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates have national chapters of IBBY.”
‘The Bride of Reeds’ and Tamazight Literature’s from Oral to Written
“[I]n order for Tamazight culture to move forward, we must produce. I hope that our culture will finally take its rightful place in a universal context.”
Fantastically Successful Kickstarter for an Arts Library in Baghdad
The Kickstarter campaign “One Hundred Sixty-Eight Hours and One Second,” launched by Iraqi artist Wafaa Bilal to raise money for the library at the University of Baghdad’s College of Fine Arts, has fourteen days remaining. But it already has exceeded its modest $9,000 goal by more than $28,000.
Taleb Alrefai’s ‘Here’ Withdrawn from International Prize for Arabic Fiction Longlist
“Books submitted to the prize are accepted in good faith on the basis that they abide by the prize’s submission rules. Should it emerge that an entry does not meet these criteria, for whatever reason, it is the duty of the Board of Trustees to take action to ensure the Prize’s integrity.”
Abdelfattah Kilito’s ‘Thou Shalt Not Translate Me,’ Translated
“Because I fear that translation would weaken the text, or by contrast, I fear that it would make it look more alluring and concrete.”
In Turkish Translation, Eşref Feyyâd’s ‘Hikmet’ and Other Poems
“Sevmek bir kuş değil sevgilinin elindeki
Ağaçtaki on kuşa bedel.”
The Talk Writer Omar Hazek Would’ve Given if He’d Been Allowed to Receive His Free-speech Award
“Let me tell you of the Egyptian poet Ahmed Doma, who was detained 18 times during Mubarak and SCAF’s regimes, and is currently sentenced for 31 years of imprisonment!”