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“This landmark work of Egyptian realism, the first of Abu Seif’s collaborations with Mahfouz, follows a widowed mother’s hellish struggle against poverty.”

You can read more about their projects in Arabic and English at the AFAC website.

“We denounce the systemic prosecution of advocates of sexual and religious freedom.

“We denounce the censorship of artists anywhere in the world.”

AFP calls the novel “[b]y turns harrowing, heart-breaking and funny[.]”

“I was approached by a young man smelling of soap—he seemed to me to have just had a bath and shaved—and gripping a long-barreled shotgun of local manufacture in his two clean hands.”

“They have amazing illustrated books. So we’re going to be launching cookbooks with them.”

“But my voice came back when the great poet Nizar al-Qabbani intervened after the festival[.]”

“I made so many sophisticated movies, but people can only remember Qandil Umm Hashem.”

Beyond Writing “provides a creative view of the political, social and cultural contexts within which the books were written.”