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What will you find in Emirati author Hamad AlHamady’s terrorist thriller? Sawad Hussain translates an excerpt.

“A number of contemporary Arab-authored and Arabic-language science fiction texts are displayed, gesturing to the recent surge in the popularity of the genre throughout the Middle East[.]”

“But irony and sarcasm are dangerous devices. And I have a fleeting sense that my fondness of irony will one day cause my demise.”

“Someone on Twitter asked about new books by Muslim writers to read (or get hyped about) for Ramadan, so I made a short list of newish and forthcoming books[.]”

Nabhan was nominated for the prize on the strength of his semi-autobiographical 2013 novel L-Eżodu taċ-Ċikonji, or The Storks’ Exodus.

“From early boyhood I never studied during the holy month of Ramadan, although this was the month during which I read more than at any other time.”

“Seven minutes before its natural end the play stopped. Its rhythm had been sped up, the performance turned into something resembling the dull recitation of a classical poem, or a school text learned by rote.”

Summer is a season for reading the new, enjoyable, and unexpected. And yet not all books are best enjoyed at a beach.

The blocking of 21 news websites and the trial of Khaled Ali are not very good birthday presents for Egyptian novelist, scholar, translator, teacher, and activist Radwa Ashour (May 25, […]