Yet more Emirati money for hungry literary tummies…
Eight young Arab authors—six of whom are on the prestigious Beirut 39 list—are currently squirreled away at Sir Baniyas Island, writing a short story or novel chapter and being tutored […]
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
Gulf puts more money in the literary mouth
In 2008, the Emirates Foundation funded the first “Arabic Booker” literary prize. The Dubai International Poetry Festival 2009 has announced its intentions to revive an ancient Arab literary contest. The […]
A Public Space: The Cairo Issue
The new issue of A Public Space is full of young Egyptian writers in a “focus” curated by Brian Edwards. With a story from Mansoura el-Ezdin and two entries from […]
Winter reading
Publications will trip over themselves to tell you what to lug to the beach for “summer reading.” But who can concentrate with all that sun? The best time for reading […]
Iraq’s permanent citizen
Generally, I gravitate toward fiction—probably as one of my obstinacies, since the rest of the world is racing like a bullet toward memoir. But as I read and review the […]
Protected: Robin Moger on Translation: ‘Everything Can and Should Be Attempted’
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Mansoura Ezz Eldin
Mansoura Ez-Eldin (b. 1976) studied journalism at Cairo University. She published her first collection of short stories, Shaken Light, in 2001. She has worked in Egyptian television and at the Egyptian literary magazine Akhbar […]
2016 International Prize for Arabic Fiction Longlist: Taleb Alrefai’s ‘Here’
Taleb Alrefai was previously a judging chair for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. According to the 2016 longlist release: Taleb Alrefai is a Kuwaiti novelist, born in 1958. He […]
Jabbour Douaihy – ‘The American Neighborhood’
From the International Prize for Arabic Fiction official biography and book description: Jabbour Douaihy was born in Zgharta, northern Lebanon, in 1949. He holds a PhD degree in Comparative Literature […]