Book-to-screen: New This Ramadan
“In any case, the project stars Mona Zaki.”
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Novelist Fadi Zaghmout: ‘Many Arabs Are Longing for Sexual Freedoms and Body Rights’
“We march together and fight together and make change together!”
Arab and Arabic Literatures at the 2016 Edinburgh Book Festival
Hisham Matar, Ghassan Zaqtan, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Nada Awar Jarrar, Ahmed al-Malik and more.
The Classic ‘Woman vs. Arabic’ Story
“She starts her journey by re-acquainting herself with Egyptian Arabic in Cairo in late 2011. “
Friday Films: ‘A Touch of Fear,’ Based on a Novella by Tharwat Abaza
“This weeks film is “A Touch of Fear” (1969), based on a novella of the same name by Egyptian “Knight of the Arabic Novel” Tharwat Abaza.”
Disrupting Refugee Literature: ‘Whatever Else, The Language Needs To Change’
“Whatever else, the language” — and how it binds up the ways we see or don’t see those people we call “refugees” — “needs to change.”
Egypt’s Biggest Literary Award to Poet and ‘Language Guardian’ Farouk Shousha
“In his role as secretary general, Shousha has been critical of what he considers to be a decline in the quality of Arabic in Egypt, a problem he attributes to radio and television announcers, poor teaching standards and the lack of libraries in schools. Shousha has described the problem as ‘an issue of national security.'”
6 Reads, 6 Different Views on Ramadan
Six different Ramadans from genres, countries, and periods: 1) “Ramadan,” a poem by Khaled Mattawa on Web Del Sol. Of Ramadan’s spent in Libya when The spirits/ of Johnny Walker and gin/ hide in […]
Friday Films: ‘The Impossible,’ Based on a Novel by Mostafa Mahmoud
Every Friday, ArabLit suggests a new classic film-book combination — for you to watch and read — until we run out of steam about 20 weeks in: This week, it’s the 1965 […]