By Margaret Litvin “Didn’t I tell you?” the colonel’s daughter Fayza al-Tuhami tells the semi-conscious protagonist of Mohamed Mansi Qandil’s Qamar ʻAla Samarqand (Moon Over Samarqand). “Those soldiers, they’re always […]
Publisher, educator, and graphic novelist Anna Mudd recently attended the 30th Sharjah International Book Fair, where she collaborated with a number of prominent Arab graphic novelists. She writes: As one […]
Jabbour Douaihy, whose acclaimed novel June Rain was shortlisted for the inaugural International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2008, is on the 2012 IPAF longlist again for The Vagrant. Douaihy, whose […]
It was December 1996 when the American University in Cairo Press (AUCP) first presented the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature. The first award went to two Egyptians: Latifa al-Zayyat, for […]
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Ahmed AlKilabi, who earned his first degree in English literature from the University of Baghdad in 1974 and went on to become a Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, commented recently […]
At the intersection of creative appropriation, translation, cartooning, and journalism, Josh Neufeld creates his “Bahrain: Lines in the Sand.” Neufeld wasn’t in Bahrain during the recent protests that were violently […]
Banipal 44, set for release in the summer of 2012, will be dedicated to “Arab Love Stories.” The call for submissions is open to all Arab-identified authors. This issue will […]
This year, freelance journalist Ann Morgan has passed her time reading women. She made a decision early this year, she said, ” to devote 2011, the last year of my twenties, […]
