Readers and Writers Battling Censorship in Kuwait Have a Hard Road Ahead
According to Kuwaiti Minister of Education and Higher Education Bader Al-Essa, rumors of “sex books” in Kuwaiti libraries are greatly exaggerated.
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Readers in Solidarity with Threatened Algerian Novelist Kamel Daoud
An Algerian Salafi imam has called for the death of award-winning Algerian novelist Kamel Daoud.
Why Did ‘Other Press’ Stick Through Heated Auction to Get Debut Algerian Novel?
Algerian journalist Kamel Daoud’s “Meursault, Counter-Investigation” was the subject of a heated auction at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair.
Hanan al-Shaykh on the Launch of ‘The Virgins of Londonstan’
The Beirut International Arab Book Fair may not be as big as Arabic book fairs in Riyadh, Sharjah, or Cairo, but, by virtue of being Beirut, it draws in some of the region’s biggest writers.
On the Lists: Best Books of 2014
Which Arabic books in translation made the major newspapers’ and magazines’ “best of” lists for 2014?
Muhsin al-Ramli: ‘After Finishing the Novel, I Changed Completely’
Alexandra Atiya talks with Iraqi novelist Muhsin al-Ramli about his Dates on My Fingers, trans. Luke Leafgren (2014), a novel that began in the wake of destruction.
‘Why Not Use This Sense of Humor in an Artistic Work?’
Egyptian novelist Nael Eltoukhy, author of the grittily witty Women of Karantina, recently appeared at a launch event for the English translation of his novel.
Beloved Egyptian Novelist Radwa Ashour, 1946-2014
Beloved, acclaimed Egyptian novelist Radwa Ashour has died, leaving behind a great hole.
December 2014: Global Calendar of Arab and Arabic Literature Events
Arab and Arabic literature events in some form of translation.