In 2006, “Vagina Monologues”-inspired projects launched in Lebanon (“Women’s Talk”) and Egypt (“BuSSy”). In 2012, a similar project launched in Morocco (“Dialy”), although it’s had different struggles.
“For BuSSy to continue to share with the world the remarkable histories of our storytellers, we need a safe and open space to hold our workshops..away from censorship and content-controlling funding…”
I was skeptical when Darf Publishers relaunched “with a focus on Arabic literature in translation.”
“Translation-related activities from and into Arabic have significantly increased in the last few years, in both scope and scale.”
If Facebook-mogul Zuckerberg is really reading a book every other week, we’ll assume that he’s reading the abridged version of Franz Rosenthal’s translation of the great “Prolegomena.”
Utopia, a novel by popular science-fiction and horror writer Ahmed Khaled Towfik, is being turned into a big-budget film.
‘Tis the season.
If you have events you’d like to add, please email them in or add below: June 1 Discussion of Taha Hussein’s The Days (Boulder, USA) A book-group discussion of The Days: His […]
A $5,000 Pan-African poetry prize is now open for submissions.
