‘Protect and Serve’? Crime-fic Symposium to Include Look at Arabic Noir
The “Arab Noir” panel at “‘Protect and Serve’: Crime Fiction and Community” promises an innovative discussion of the ways in which Arabs do, or don’t do, crime fiction.
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Yalla Afrabia! Chimurenga’s First Arabic-language Edition
“Meanwhile, I like to remind skeptics that no one seems to question North Africa’s place in Africa during Africa Cup of Nations.”
10 of the Best Crowdfunded Literary Projects: International
The successful campaigns share a few characteristics: large networks, good explanation of where the money’s going, decent (to fabulous) perks, and a lot of hard outreach work.
Ramadan, Reading
The blog “Under the Neem Tree” is running its third Ramadan-reading challenge.
A Focus on ‘Places and Languages that Don’t See Much Movement into English’
I was skeptical when Darf Publishers relaunched “with a focus on Arabic literature in translation.”
Why Is Mark Zuckerberg Reading Ibn Khaldun’s ‘al-Muqaddimah’?
If Facebook-mogul Zuckerberg is really reading a book every other week, we’ll assume that he’s reading the abridged version of Franz Rosenthal’s translation of the great “Prolegomena.”
Ahmed Khaled Towfik’s ‘Utopia’ to Be Made into Big-budget Film
Utopia, a novel by popular science-fiction and horror writer Ahmed Khaled Towfik, is being turned into a big-budget film.
Seven Beach Reads for Summer 2015
‘Tis the season.
June 2015: Arab and Arabic Literary Events Calendar
If you have events you’d like to add, please email them in or add below: June 1 Discussion of Taha Hussein’s The Days (Boulder, USA) A book-group discussion of The Days: His […]