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“The festival is now set for March 1 to 12.”

On Saturday, Egypt opened its first Museum of Arabic Calligraphy, in the seaside city of Alexandria.

Al-Ghitani is reportedly at al-Galaa Military Hospital on life support.

“As the narrative opens, we are unsure if war is beginning, will begin, or has already begun. Throughout, we are equally unsure if war is ending, and how we might recognise this ‘ending’ when it comes.”

“Reading Oh, Salaam! today, the first English translation of Barakat’s acclaimed and award-winning work as a novelist, is an occasion to reconsider how to grieve, how to mourn, and to identify and confront, head on, the destructive impulses that humans, predatory as rats as we can be, have the capacity to reinvent.”

“What remained constant throughout the years, however, is my oscillation between two main occupations: writing novels in Arabic and reading and translating Hebrew.”

“In the French version the pages are not numbered. I wanted the reader to start the book anywhere.”

“These two novels make for unusually high-profile co-winners of this year’s AABA fiction prize, announced yesterday.”