The Failure of Sansal’s ‘2084’: Its Essential Optimism
“This simplicity is, unfortunately, no doubt partly responsible for the novel’s success so far in France.”
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‘Chief Complaint’: Vignettes from Village Palestine
‘Twenty-five doctors graduated from Arrabeh this year alone. The percentage of doctors in Arrabeh is higher than anywhere else in the world.’
Al-Koni’s ‘The New Waw’: The Desert as a Central Character
“There are few names in the narrative, and only a few characters who appear throughout the novel to guide the reader through. It is easier to regard the landscape as the only consistent character.”
5 Short Texts by Gamal al-Ghitani, 1945-2015
“Before the shadow of the old camphor tree lengthened, before the call to prayer at noon, they stretched out on the ground beside the field when the crop was ripe – a day or two before harvest.”
Towering Egyptian Novelist and Cultural Critic, Gamal al-Ghitani, Dies at Age 70
Acclaimed Egyptian novelist and journalist Gamal al-Ghitani has died in a Cairo military hospital, aged 70
On the Re-release of Nawal El Saadawi’s Books in English: 8 Online Reads
This year, there was perhaps more serious talk about El Saadawi taking a Nobel Prize for Literature than in any year previous.
Film Adaptation of Yusuf Idris’s ‘House of Flesh’ Rejected by Egyptian Censors
According to Youm7 and El Watan, el-Ramly has changed his script version of “House of Flesh” in effort to have it approved.
Dinner with Elias Khoury
“If you were at my house, there would be no question. You would just eat.”
The Premodern and Contemporary Arabic Texts That Influenced Amitav Ghosh
“Sometimes it happens when you pick up a book — it just opens possibilities to you.”