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“There’s a whole range of work in there — 10 writers translated from 4 languages, of all ages; a lot of poetry, some funny fiction, some militant feminist Amazigh work, and so much in between.”

“Yet Barakat and writer Youssef Gohar also created a poetic script that almost matches the novel’s genius.”

Arab and Arabic literary events in some form of translation.

“[A]nd most of all, they laugh.”

“We, the undersigned, have been following with anxiety the continued deterioration in the performance of the organs of the State, the increase of oppressive practices, the attacks on public, personal, academic and artistic freedoms and the string of incidents that embarrass the country in front of the international community – at a time when Egypt badly needs to be part of this community.”

“It’s a matter of being able to control the activities and programming that take place – music, performance, talks, visual art.”

“Mohamed Hashem called on writers and readers to attend an open meeting at Merit on Monday at 4 p.m.”