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ArabLit in Australia: A Conversation with Amal Awad
“There is just too much emphasis on women as barometers for society.”
Prominent Egyptian Novelist Sabri Moussa, 1932-2018
Scholar Ada Barbaro has said she considers Moussa the “father of the dystopic novel” in Arabic fiction for his The Lord Arrived from the Spinach Field.
International Prize for Arabic Fiction Announces 2018 Longlist: Packed with Well-known Writers
“At least one of the novels, Shahad al-Rawi’s ‘Baghdad Clock,’ has already been translated into English, by Luke Leafgren. It’s set for an April release from OneWorld.”
Join the GoodReads Book Club for Discussions of ‘The Open Door,’ ‘One Hundred and One Nights,’ and ‘Code Name: Butterfly’
” Like most graduate students, I had decided that I didn’t have time to read for fun. So I had failed to nurture a part of myself that ended up being key in my creative and scholarly endeavors. Goodreads helped me, especially through its recommendations feature.”
Friday Finds: ‘A Study in Oedipal Love’
“Backwards through the decades he went, from her fifties to her forties and thirties, then the university years, and finally the photographs from school.”
Robin Moger Wins 2017 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation
From the judges: “An alluring translation that captures beautifully the nuances of the Arabic original.”
Turn of the Century Arabic Romance Novels
“The more you start to look for romance novels in the 19th and 20th century Arabic, the more you begin to find.”
Youssef Rakha’s ‘Paolo,’ Saad Abdel-Fattah’s ‘Grass’ Win Top Sawiris Prizes of 2017
On Monday night, one of the glitteriest and most well-respected awards of the Egyptian literature season announced its winners. Among the Sawiris Cultural Prize awardees are Youssef Rakha’s Paulo and Mohammad Abdelnaby’s In the Spider’s Room, which is set to appear this fall in Jonathan Wright’s translation.