"Speaking of translation, I once went alone to a workshop in Montreuil without a translator, and so I used Google Translate to pull sentences together and I sketched with the kids and it went quite well for about two hours."
Newly Revealed Nobel Archives: Tawfiq al-Hakim Was Up for 1969 Prize
It notes only that he was nominated by Shawky Deif.
December 25: Remembering Salah Eissa
"Orabi Hassan, the first of his new neighbours that Hasballah got to know in Maskoubiya, was a short-statured young man with black hair, honey-coloured eyes and light-brown skin."
Egypt’s Supreme Military Appeals Court Upholds 5-year Sentence Against Publisher Khaled Lutfi
According to Mada Masr, the Supreme Military Appeals Court had "postponed a ruling on the case 11 times before issuing its final verdict on Tuesday."
Friday Finds: ‘An Authentic Corruption’ by Hermes
"I do not write in the day what I write in the night / because I am like the owl, I have / a slow wing clap and eyes / open to the blight."
Sawiris Prize Announces Its 2019 ‘Young Writer’ Shortlists
Winners are set to be announced January 10, 2020, at the Grand Theater of the Cairo Opera House.
Friday Finds: What We Talk About When We Talk About Trees’
As my husband gets ready for a TV interview about his latest short story collection, he receives a phone call from the host, asking: “What are we going to do about January 25?”
Naguib Mahfouz: New Reads and More for the Author’s 108th
Despite the passing of Naguib Mahfouz in 2006, plenty happened in the ongoing life of his work.
New Fiction in Translation: The Puny Pigeon Loft Proprietor
"So—he must have witnessed the robbery."
Fish, Resistant Bodies, and Sameh Mahran’s ‘The Boatman’
Young Man: The most beautiful thing about fish is that they don’t need to take their clothes off. Young Woman: And they make love just like that, no need or privacy.
SPECIAL SECTION: The Edwar al-Kharrat Memorial Library
When I visited the library years after last seeing Edwar, years after he passed away, it was thanks to Mohamed Shoair – a friend, author, and literary journalist at the weekly Akhbar al-Adab. Shoair was entrusted by Edwar’s son, Dr Ihab al-Kharrat, to safeguard and organize the manuscripts, papers, and books left in the library.
The Arabic Novel’s Contribution to Global Storytelling Styles: ‘Rama and the Dragon’
"What is important in the novel is not succession, but crystallization."
