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“I lost inspiration for three years, only to recover it in my small frigid box — cell 5, ward 23.”

“The Upper Egyptian events were supposed to be financially backed by the Egyptian Ministry of Culture, as had been promised when Gaber Asfour was the minister. But with the recent change of ministers, the fund was cancelled with the new staff.”

“Age manipulation can make entire families physically appear to be of a single generation: such is the case with the Christian community of Fuhais, who in a literalist reading of the Bible have all decided to live their lives in the same blissful childhood state.”

“The idea was that the readers who were informed would know which author was intended without having to be told. Especially when authors were criticizing contemporaries or scholars of recent memory, oblique criticism was considered to show more finesse.”

“I had to put this book down several times just to laugh.”

Four Library of Arabic Literature classics are set to be released as English-language-only paperbacks.

The great Palestinian author Ghassan Kanafani was born on this day in 1936: Kanafani was born in Akka to a prominent lawyer and started his studies at Les Frères, a […]

Yesterday, the US-based Best Translated Book Award (BTBA) released its poetry and fiction longlists.