Mosaic Rooms: 10 Books to Celebrate 10 Years
To celebrate The Mosaic Rooms’ 10th, the Mosaic team shared 10 books from their 10 years of events, exhibitions, lectures, and films.
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9 Forthcoming in November 2018
Nine translations from the Arabic — at least, translated from the Arabic in some roundabout fashion — forthcoming this month.
Almultaqa Prize Announces 5-book Shortlist for 2018
Organizers of the Kuwait-based Almultaqa Prize for the Arabic Short Story announced their shortlist this morning.
On H-Day, Remembering Ahmed Khaled Towfik
“[M]y English was not good enough to read horror literature, so I started writing it myself.”
James Montgomery on Listening to the ‘Antarah in His Bones
“It was very, very liberating to have gone through that experience—to be forced to be honest with myself.”
The American Soldier in Arab Novels
Blasim further said, in an interview for Barnes & Noble, that he didn’t write about Americans, and indeed “deliberately ignored stories of American soldiers, the kind that appear in Iraqi and American literature and art, either as heroes, victims, or criminals.”
5 Titles to Start the Mo Salah Book Club
“It was July 5 when the Egyptian football superhero tweeted a photo of himself reading the book, and, according to Akhbar al-Yom, sales have not slackened since.”
James Montgomery on When ‘All Poets Were Warriors’
“In other words, it’s important to welcome and embrace the uncertainties rather than to dismiss them[.]”
Arabian Romantic: A ‘Linear Descendent’ of Early Arabic Classics
“I had to steep myself into the language of ghazal, not only the vocabulary but also the allusions and associations that are part of it for those who are in the know about the tradition – a bit like one must know the mystical concepts when you translate Sufi poetry. Without that background, one can go awfully wrong.”