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“Either way, there are some truly hair-curling, gooseflesh-raising, get-me-off-this-planet Arab books.”

“It is not quite clear the extent to which Noura (or even young Nour) is meant to be allegory for Egypt. She has, after all, refused both the Islamic and Western options, and remained confident of her ability to devise her own way in spite of her dubious future.”

“Also yesterday, Lebanese-American novelist Rabih Alameddine took this year’s Prix Femina Étranger for ‘Les Vies de papier’ (the French version of ‘An Unnecessary Woman’), as translated by Nicolas Richard. “

As part of this effort, the Emirates Literature Foundation helped identify and curate “a collection of over 50 Arabic books in the Google Play Books store that will be discounted at 90 per cent off.”

Titled ‘The Djinn Falls in Love, and Other Stories,’ it promises to bring together more than “20 new and classic tales of Djinn from amazing authors from all around the world.”

“When they laugh, people turn into something else entirely.”

“I found that very strange and hard to digest – and I mean that as a compliment.”

“The 84-page work echoes the dreaminess of Kazuo Ishiguro′s ‘The Unconsoled’; instead of dream-logic, however, there is memory-logic.”