Three Poems from ‘Jours Tranquilles au Caire’
Isabelle Mayault’s debut, “Jours Tranquilles au Caire,” launched this spring, and is currently on sale in Cairo in French, with an Arabic translation in the works.
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Qatar’s New $650K Arabic Novel Prize Gets Relatively Quiet Launch
“Like it or not….”
Debate and Dismay over Saudi’s ‘Guest of Honor’ Status at Turin Book Fair
This is not the first time for such a controversy.
Librarian David Hirsch: Roaming the Middle East for Printed Matter
“It takes time,” he said. “You can’t just open a funnel, you can’t just click on Amazon. It’s not quick and dirty.”
2015 Palestine Festival of Literature Announces Schedule and Writers
The 2015 Palestine Festival of Literature, which opens this year on May 23, recently announced its participating authors and their schedule, which includes events in six cities.
Algerian Publisher Assia Moussei: ‘We Wanted to Take Refuge in Culture”
“To date, we have published more than 500 titles, and I am not exaggerating at all when I say that I feel the same joy I felt at the beginning, undiminished by the problems and difficulties we have been through.”
Farouk Mardam Bey and Literary Gastronomy
In a piece originally written for the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair’s Show Daily, Olivia Snaije talks with prominent publisher and food-writer Farouk Mardam Bey, whose popular book on Arab cuisine is […]
The Future of (Arabic-focused) Libraries: What is the Public Sphere?
The “library as place” — but what sort of place?
‘Two Languages Diverged’: I Chose One and Then the Other
“There is a flexibility in adaptation which honors the preferences and comforts that differ between cultures and languages.”