‘Made by Many’: Arab Creative Events and Festivals Fund-raising Challenge
“Projects include Lebanon’s ‘Nehna wel Amar wel Jiran Festival,’ a free cultural festival set to take place at the end of August, organized by Collectif Kahraba.”
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‘The Book Of Khartoum’ Wins 2015 PEN Translates Award
The majority of winners are translated from translated from Spanish (4), French (3), and German (2), but there are also books from the Danish, Tamil, Mandarin, and Arabic.
Gulf Coast Translation Prize and Other Summer Submission Calls
Magazines and prizes are seeking your translated works.
The Return of ‘The Arab of the Future’
“French readers can’t seem to get enough of it – or anything, for that matter, that emerges from Sattouf’s drawing board.”
Battle over Free Speech for Artists and Writers in Israel
“…a field of discourse that is no wider than the opened blades of the censor’s scissors.”
Re-membering: How to Assemble a Corpus of Classical Arabic Literature
“When we say to people it’s like the Loeb [Classical Library]…or it’s like these other libraries, the reality is that those are really going to publish their entire corpus. And we’re never going to do that. We could never even publish all of Ibn al-Jawzi if we wanted.”
First Big Arabic-focused Bookshop Opens in Istanbul
The newly opened “Pages” Bookshop is located in the historic Fatih district, close to the Kariye Museum.
Gamal El-Ghitani Wins Egypt’s Biggest State-funded Prize
El-Ghitani’s most celebrated work is Zayni Barakat, translated into English by Farouk Abdel Wahab.
Who Should Be Eligible for (and Included in) African Literary Prizes?
For the prizes to speak to Arab-African writers, we need to create this space.