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“We didn’t have to think twice to choose Adonis as he is the most prominent voice in world poetry today.”

Clearly, there is no novel that “humanizes” its subject — the subjects were already human: before, during, and after the book. But there are some novels that humanize the reader, making us more fully aware of the worlds inside ourselves. This is such a novel.

“One Easter Day, I went out into the street wearing my new shoes and carrying three colored boiled eggs.”

“Apart from books in Hebrew, there are also an impressive collection of books in Russian, English, Spanish and French.”

Arab and Arabic literary events in some form of translation.

At first, I thought, “Hmm, this foreword might alienate people.” Later, I was more annoyed by how it had shaped the way in which I approached the book.

After a five-year hiatus, more than 200 writers and critics participated in the Sixth Cairo Forum for the Arabic Novel earlier this month: By Mona Elnamoury One of the most interesting […]

“This is why I dedicate to you — and only you — my novel. Out of love and in apology to you, Ahmad Essam Hazek.”

This interview with Dr. Tom Shakespeare first appeared on the Library of Arabic Literature website: Scholar, blogger, and public-health advocate Tom Shakespeare recently did a five-part series on “The Genius […]