Ursula Lindsey and M Lynx Qualey talk about the show on Episode 60: "Paranormal."
What 1930s Egyptian Travel Writing Says About the ‘Arab Mediterranean’
"The interwar years were a golden age for travel writing in Egypt and the Middle East in general; scores of new books arrived to tell Arabic readers about the increasingly connected world."
Cairo International Book Fair Pushed to June and July, 2021
The fair's new dates are June 30 to July 15, the committee's statement said.
Translated Stories to Mark the Passing of Said al-Kafrawi, 1942-2020
"When I walked through the door into the dimly lit hospital room, I found him lying on the bed, broken."
Bahia Shehab on ‘A History of Arab Graphic Design’
"So the fact that I couldn’t find enough women was, to me, exciting for the researcher, because now I want to find them. The Women of Arab Graphic Design should be coming out next."
Working on ‘Warda’: ‘Challenging in all the Ways a Translation Project Could Be’
"Like I say, it’s fleeting, but I could write a whole memoir, I think, just about getting that sentence translated."
Three Poems by Sargon Boulus Award-Winning Emad Abu Saleh
"They were not sieving, / But dancing to the rhythm."
Friday Finds: ‘A Rot of Evidence’
"I thought these are crazy days. I have been in prison for a long time, and I have no idea what’s going on. Maybe they’re fabricating a case against Nagib Mahfouz or his ghost."
Classic Bulaq: ‘Love and Silence, Rediscovering Enayat al-Zayyat’
This week's Bulaq is a re-run, the episode focused on Iman Mersal's "In the Footsteps of Enayat al-Zayyat."
Ahmed Khaled Tawfik and ‘Paranormal’
Today, Netflix is releasing the series Paranormal, based on the ما وراء الطبيعة books by beloved Egyptian novelist Ahmed Khaled Tawfik. We look back at the man (1962-2018) and the impact his books had on young readers.
‘Paranormal Will Always Have a Special Place in My Heart’
"Before that, I had read the Arabic translation of the Goosebumps novels, and I knew that I loved horror fiction, but for me this was better -- maybe it was the Egyptian environment, characters, and atmosphere that made it familiar and yet outlandish."
Birthing the Ugly Hero: Dr. Refaat Ismail
"When Rifaat Ismail died in the novellas, it caused a sensation on the internet. Fans on social media websites made a de facto protest march online, complaining that the man still had plenty of life in him and that the author should have kept him going for at least another 10 years."
