On Palestinian Libraries
They spoke about the particular issues encountered by Palestinian libraries and librarians, what they are doing to address those problems, and what the international library community can do to help.
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Celebrated Translator Robin Moger’s Reads for 2016 and 2017
“Following the progress of a young mother through revolution and tragedy personal and political this enormous, digressive, shaggy-canine, surreal novel has some of the signature humour and shambolic expansiveness of Nael’s Women of Karantina, but carries devastating emotional power and focus, the mock-seriousness fringed with melancholy and madness.”
Arab Authors’ and Translators’ Favorites: The 2016 List
Nine Arab authors and Arabic-English translators discuss their favorite reads from 2016.
Poet Dunya Mikhail on Kidnapped Iraqi Writer Afrah Shawqi and Elusive ‘Freedom of Expression’
In this essay, Afrah said that “freedom of expression” was the phrase most frequently used by Iraqi politicians post-2003, “yet our lives, we journalists, are risked every time we criticize any head, even if it were the head of onion.”
Caine Prize 2017 Judges Include Libyan Writer Ghazi Gheblawi, Submissions Open
The five-story shortlist will be announced in mid-May, with the winner announced in London on July 3.
15 Notable Arabic Books Forthcoming in English Translation in 2017
A look at a few of the Arabic books forthcoming in English translation in 2017.
The Launch of ‘The Literary Consultancy – Middle East’
“My dream would be to expand this soon to include writers working in Arabic, too, and work collaboratively with partners and publishers in the region and beyond.”
Translating Kamel Elshennawy’s ‘Full Moon’
O Full Moon,
Did you see my own full moon?
Mansoura Ez Eldin, Carrying the Mantle of Edgar Allan Poe in Egypt
“It was a late realization, actually. Yes, I was a bookworm since I was just a kid, but the idea of being a writer never came to my mind.”