Newly Translated: Poems to Read for Ashraf Fayadh on January 14
On January 14, there will be readings held to stand shoulder to shoulder with Palestinian poet and artist Ashraf Fayadh held around the world.
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Why Algerian Author Zehira Houfani Quit Writing Detective Novels
“State publishing, as with every other state sector, entered a serious crisis.”
A Poem to Mark Tamazight’s New Status As an Official Algerian Language
“alas you the clerics who chant
you who are well considered
can’t you see that our religion is up for sale”
Novels of Jewish-Muslim ‘Miscegenation’: A Thriving World
Demand for Dorit Rabinyan’s Borderlife has apparently surged since the novel — which details a Muslim-Jewish love story — was excluded from Israel’s high-school curriculum as depicting “miscegenation” and “threatening Jewish identity.”
Novelist Ahmed Naji and Editor Acquitted in ‘Public Morality’ Case
Novelist and journalist Ahmed Naji, author of The Use of Life, and Akhbar al-Adab editor Tarek al-Taher were both acquitted on Saturday of charges of “harming public morality.”
Forthcoming: 16 to Read in 2016
“This autobiographical novel, about Khalifa’s thirteen years in a Syrian prison, has already appeared in strong French translation from Stéphanie Dujols (La Coquille), and in 2016 will be issued in English, published by Interlink.”
10 Authors’ Favorites of 2015: The Year in Arabic Literature and Beyond
“For me, the best novel published in 2015 is Mohamed Rabie’s ‘Otared.'” – Yasser Abdel Latif.
‘How I Smoked All My Books’: An Investigation of Smoking, and Fiction, in Algeria
While sex, drugs and pizzas have been stable story elements in Algerian novels over the past decade (for pizzas, read Chawki Amari), a prominent place given to smoking seems relatively […]
Basma Abdel Aziz: ‘The Worst Thing Is That Publishers Are Scared, Too’
“In all my writing I try to destroy different faces of dictatorship and of totalitarian authority, whether political, social or religious.”