Today in Cairo, the Egyptian Ministry of Culture will celebrate the 80th birthday of Egyptian novelist Bahaa Taher — the inaugural winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction — with an evening conference.
This February, Kuwaiti author Mai al-Nakib will be giving talks and readings across the U.S. from her debut short-story collection, The Hidden Light of Objects: Al-Nakib’s collection was released in the […]
“We are hoping to extend the love of literature throughout the year, because the festival is happening only in March and it’s compressed in that one week. There was definitely the need to expand beyond that.”
Award-winning Emirati science-fiction author Noura Al Noman, with two books published in her Ajwan series, looks at the possibilities and pitfalls of a new Arabic fantasy series by Islam Idris.
In a new volume from the Library of Arabic Literature, James E. Montgomery re-translates the extraordinary story of Ibn Fadlan’s “Mission to the Volga.”
Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh has now gone more than a year without trial in Saudi prisons on the ostensible charge that he’s been “insulting the Godly self” through his poetry “and having long hair.”
This morning, the 16-strong longlist for the 2015 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) was announced.
The Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the U.S. announced the 2014 recipients of the Hemingway Grant last month, and among the grant-ees were translations of work by Abdellatif Laâbi and Mohamed Nedali.
Just days before the announcement of the 2015 International Prize for Arabic Fiction longlist, OneWorld and Penguin announce that they’ve bought English-language rights to the 2014 winner.
