In Graz, Austria next week, Algerian-German novelist Boualem Sansal, Egyptian novelist Ibrahim Farghali, and Lebanese novelist Alawiyya Sobh (among others) will appear at the “Baklava Reading Festival” (yes, that sort of baklava)–
Images courtesy of a mystery photographer and the Twitter feed of @ShjIntlBookFair:
This is old news, since the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) book award ceremony took place on Halloween (October 31 for you non-revelers) but I only just saw […]
International publishers are meeting in Sharjah again this year, the thirty-first year of its international book fair, although only the fourth in its new guise as one of the world’s […]
Speaking of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction’s (IPAF) forthcoming (next month) longlist, it continues to be strange that Youssef Rakha‘s debut novel, Book of the Sultan’s Seal (2011) did not appear on […]
This Friday, Nov. 9, beginning around 7 p.m., the Arab Studies Club at Hunter College is set to present their second annual “Poetry and Tea Night.” According to organizer Dina […]
(Today) Monday, November 5: Tuesday, Nov. 13 – Thursday, Nov. 15:
It seems a fairly safe bet that Rabee Jaber’s 2011 novel طيور الهوليداي إن (The Birds of Holiday Inn) will be on the longlist for the 2013 International Prize for Arabic […]
In between other books, I have been browsing my way through the collection Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here, ed. Beau Beausoleil and Deema Shehabi. There are dozens of moments that have pricked […]
