Help Ann Morgan: A Year of Reading (the Arabic-writing) World
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, […]
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
5 Questions with Amira Nowaira, Translator of ‘The Tobacco Keeper’
Dr. Amira Nowaira translated Ali Bader’s The Tobacco Keeper (read a mid-novel excerpt here), which is out next month from Bloomsbury-Qatar; review forthcoming in Al Masry Al Youm. The book, […]
Elliott Colla’s Translation of ‘The Lady from Tel Aviv’ Wins PEN Support
English PEN Writers in Translation announced yesterday that four books had garnered supporting awards for the first half of 2012. They are: Ryszard Kapuścinśki: The Biography, by Artur Domosławski, translated […]
International Prize for Arabic Fiction Longlist Profiles: ‘Under the Copenhagen Sky’
I haven’t seen a copy of Hawra al-Nadawi’s تحت سماء كوبنهاغن, although I must admit to a slight fear of books with leaping women on their covers. (Why do publishers […]
International Prize for Arabic Fiction Longlist Profiles: ‘Embrace at the Brooklyn Bridge’
Embrace at the Brooklyn Bridge, a novel by former Egyptian diplomat (and current novelist-professor-commentator) Ezzedine Choukri Fishere, is the second of Fishere’s novels to be longlisted for the prize popularly […]
‘Arabic Booker’ Shortlist Announcement Delayed, But Still Set for Cairo
International Prize for Arabic Fiction organizers announced today that: Given the current turmoil in Cairo and our awareness of, and respect for, the suffering and anxieties of many of those […]
‘The Tattoo’ and Other Poems by Muhammad al-Maghut (to Consider on an Election Day)
Poet, essayist, and playwright Muhammad al-Maghut—called one of the revolutionaries of the (Arabic) free verse movement—was born in 1934 in Salamiya, Syria. According to Robin Yassin-Kassab over at Qunfuz, “Al-Maghut […]
Sex, Nudity, and the Arab (Graphic) Novel
Two novels that I’ve read of late, one from Egypt (Mona Prince’s So You May See) and one by a Syrian (Fadi Azzam’s Sarmada), have depictions of sex that would […]
The Public Square in Egyptian Literature
I am just now finishing a first read of Ali Bader’s حارس التبغ (The Tobacco Keeper, trans. Amira Nowaira), and it has struck me, again and again, how different the […]