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The inaugural issue is loosely themed BEGINNINGS.

The Lebanese “Bookaholics” reading group, administered by noted bibliophile Hoda Marmar (@Biologistic) has named a “top six” books in Arabic and in English from the 125 titles they’ve discussed over the past six years.

The latest issue of Banipal magazine — 62 — focuses on the relationship between literature and Arab cinema.

“I longed to stop, catch my breath, release my burden and stretch my arms, loosen my neck, massage out the aches in my body, push the night shadows aside to inhale the air and listen to the quiet sky.”

Five books to look for in August 2018.

Rabie described Aarhus as “a very quiet place, with nearly no people or cars (compared to Cairo)“.

“No Arabic books made the longlists for the 2018 National Translation Awards (NTA) in Poetry and Prose, organized by the American Literary Translators Association.”

“This scholarship is open to Palestinian-American youth and Palestinian youth residing in the US, ages 18-25.”

“It is a sort of world literature where the world is tightly focused on how the literary arts — mostly the novel — lives and breathes in Swedish and English, and, to a lesser extent, French.”