Best 100 Arabic Books (According to the Arab Writers Union): 11-20
You can find 1-10 here. 11. The Animists, by Libyan author Ibrahim al-Koni, translated by Elliot Colla. Available June 2012. I had thought The Animists was supposed to be out […]
Lit Lists
A Few of My Favorite Things: Egyptian Authors, Taha Hussein-Present
Please don’t think that the list below is authoritative. It doesn’t have Yahia Haqqi, for instance, because I haven’t read him. It doesn’t have Edwar Kharrat, because I’ve found the […]
Mansour El Souwaim on Literature in Sudan
Mansour El Souwaim was born in south Darfur in 1970, and thus must be one of the elders of the Beirut39 (39 “up and coming” Arabic authors under 40). El […]