I’m as yet only half-way through Sarmada, but yalla, we’ll never get through the longlist by Dec. 7 at this snail’s pace. The shortlist was originally scheduled to be announced […]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) announced earlier this week that nominations are now open for the 2012 Hellman-Hammett grants. The grants, administered by HRW, are for writers who have suffered persecution […]
A number of people have asked (me) why authors like Bahaa Taher, Radwa Ashour, and Elias Khoury, who are fluent in English, don’t translate their own works. After all, Ashour […]
Yesterday, I briefly mentioned Egyptian playwright Laila Soliman’s controversial summer 2011 theater projects, and her attempts to write “an alternative version of history.” Hers is just one of many artistic projects […]
I have been scheduled to do a long profile on Egyptian playwright Laila Soliman, (some of) whose work I admire. But 2011 has continued to be turbulent, and keeping to […]
I have heard, from @zuberino, that the publicity-shy University of Arkansas (X)* Center for Middle East Studies has announced that the exceptionally talented Samah Selim has won their Arabic Literature Translation […]
Attendees at the “The Woman’s Voice in Fiction: Global Perspectives” talk Thursday at the 2011 Sharjah International Book Fair had the tremendous privilege of hearing a few paragraphs from Ahdaf […]
From Dr. Samia Mehrez: “We regret to inform you that the CTS In Translature lecture by Professor Shaden Tageldin, scheduled for tomorrow, Monday November 21 at 6 pm, Oriental Hall, […]
Michael Rothenberg, the founder of 100 Thousand Poets for Change, expressed hope today that the Arab revolutionary narrative of 2011 would inspire not just the “occupy” movement, but a swing […]
