The Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the U.S. announced the 2014 recipients of the Hemingway Grant last month, and among the grant-ees were translations of work by Abdellatif Laâbi and Mohamed Nedali.
Each year, the US State Department, which funds the University of Iowa’s “Between the Lines” program, determines which countries are invited to submit nominees. This year it’s Tunisia.
Just days before the announcement of the 2015 International Prize for Arabic Fiction longlist, OneWorld and Penguin announce that they’ve bought English-language rights to the 2014 winner.
“To see this slice of the earth as it was and, how can I put it, to know that we’re not lost in our own time.”
Starting tomorrow in Cairo, you can attend the “Doum Storytelling Nights,” a return to the art of oral storytelling.
Palestinian poet and artist Ashraf Fayadh was arrested by Saudi authorities on January 1, 2014 — charged with “insulting the Godly self and having long hair” — and has yet to face trial.
A year after the al-Saeh Library bookshop was burned, and an attempt made on the owner’s life, Tripoli residents gathered for an official re-opening ceremony.
This spring, Just World Books will launch what it’s calling the “first book-length graphic work written/drawn in English by a Palestinian.”
Friday’s list of graphic novels was limited to those written in Arabic, as it was for a course taught in Arabic. But let’s be honest, some of your favorite graphic novels were written by Arabs in French.
