“During the 1970s, when my father was in his mid-forties, he announced to me his fear that the numbers of men of religion would diminish.”
This year’s panel of judges is made up of scholars and translator-scholars: Tahia Abdel Nasser, Shereen Abouelnaga, Mona Tolba, Humphrey Davies, and Rasheed El-Enany.
“In a curious NYTimes ‘Bookends’ piece this July, Francince Prose argues that Naguib Mahfouz should be added to ‘the’ canon.”
“In 1982 Osman became one of the first Uyghur students to study abroad after the end of the Cultural Revolution, spending several years at Damascus University in Syria studying Arabic literature.”
In addition to the $20,000 monetary award, the prize will also provide support toward the collection’s English-language translation and publication.
‘Gilgamesh’s Snake and Other Poems’ was co-translated by the author and Scottish poet John Glenday.
“[H]e is being subjected to smear campaigns on account of defending his right as well as his fans’ right to freedom of expression, and the right to criticize the absence of freedoms, and the deteriorating media scene in Egypt.”
“The application deadline is January 1, 2016.”
“None of the stories has the linguistic terseness typical of hardboiled noir. But the appeal of noir is not just its tone. It′s how we flip from seeing a corrupt world through the lens of a good-man detective to that of a self-destructive criminal or victim. For this, Beirut works at least as well as Brooklyn.”
