What’s Wrong with the Cairo International Book Fair?
Zeinab al-Mansi and I asked around—hey, what do you think of the government-organized book fairs?—and got a number of different answers.
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
One Minute with Co-Curator of the Bilingual Arabic-English Cultural Magazine ‘Shahadat’
I thought the ArteEast story series “Shahadat,” which currently features two stories by Ma’n Abu Taleb, was rather new. (Wrong.) Anyhow, in the process of clarifying, I learned a few things […]
7 Books: Literary Responses to Sabra and Shatila
Thanks to author Mansoura Ezz Eldin for reminding me that this week marks the 29th anniversary of the horrific slaughter at Sabra and Shatila.
Amir Tag al-Sir’s ‘Grub Hunter’ Newest Addition to African Writer Series
Yesterday, Pearson’s African Writers Series signed on Amir Tag al-Sir’s صائد اليرقات, translated by William Hutchins as The Grub Hunter.
18 More ‘Rules’ for Translation: From Spanish-English Translators Andrea Labinger and Lisa Carter
Andrea G. Labinger is Professor of Spanish Emerita at the University of La Verne. She has published numerous translations of Latin American prose fiction. Her most recent publications include a […]
2 New Arabic-English Stories in Series from ArteEast
Shahadat is a new online series from the NYC-based ArteEast.
If You’re in Cairo: ‘Translations of Palestine: Elias Khoury’s Bab el-Shams’
I’ll see you there, isA. Be early and get a seat. For those not in Cairo, I’m sure AUC Press will YouTube the video.
A Do-it-yourself Course in Arabic Lit
Of course, my first response was that the scope was a bit on the broad side. Such a project might take a lifetime or two.
Will ‘Post-9/11 Era’ Go Down as a Good Thing for Arabic Lit (in Translation)?
The first time I interviewed translator Humphrey Davies, back in the fall of 2009 (as I recall, a long Q&A where my recorder batteries went dead mid-way), Davies spoke of September 2001 as a positive marker for Arabic literature.