Contemporary Iraqi Fiction: Samir Naqqash
The second gem of Contemporary Iraqi Fiction: An Anthology is Samir Naqqash’s “Tantal.” There is only one story by him in the collection, although it’s a lovely one, about illusionment […]
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Contemporary Iraqi Fiction: Muhammad Khudayyir
I have read only the two opening stories of Contemporary Iraqi Fiction: An Anthology, finally available in Egypt from AUC Press. If all the rest of the pages were blank, […]
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 […]
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 […]
CORRECTED: On Translating the Omani Natural Landscape
On Translating Zahran Alqasmi’s Honey Hunger Emma Hardy in Conversation with Marilyn Booth Marilyn Booth’s translation of Zahran Alqasmi’s Honey Hunger was published in 2024 by AUC Press’s Hoopoe Fiction imprint, and […]
Protected: Robin Moger on Translation: ‘Everything Can and Should Be Attempted’
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.