Dihia Louiz is one of three emerging authors who appeared at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair’s Majlis Al Mutannabi, courtesy of the Daad initiative. Before that, she answered a few questions about switching between languages and writing about the events in Algeria in the spring of 2001.
The launch of Kotobi had a ripple effect, as Aboulfotouh sees it, and as a result there are a growing number of initiatives coming out of Egypt.
While fiction and poetry should never be read as history — or as a substitute for such — the Catastrophe has been the scene for some of Arabic’s most brilliant creative works.
After two weeks detained in Abu Dhabi following this year’s Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, German author Jörg Albrecht has been granted passage home. According to his publisher, he arrived in Berlin this morning.
Keep Your Eye on the Wall, ed. Olivia Snaije and Mitch Albert, is less a coffee-table collection, and more — because of its accordion-style binding — a book to transect the floor of your living space, much like the Separation Walls that keep Palestinians apart from Palestinians, from Israelis, from the world, and often from their own land.
Egyptian novelist Bahaa Abdelmeguid appeared, at the beginning of this month, at one of the AUC Press “Book Alley” events, where he spoke about his novellas ‘Sleeping with Strangers’ and ‘St. Theresa,’ trans. Chip Rossetti, and his forthcoming ‘Temple Bar,’ trans. Jonathan Wright.
American University in Cairo CAASIC fellow Anny Gaul is currently translating a section from Omar Hazek’s novel “I Don’t Love This City.” Meanwhile, the author — whose case has been taken up by PEN International — remains in prison.
At this year’s Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, YA author and would-be/will-be publisher Noura al-Noman drove in from Sharjah to talk about translating literature for young people. She spoke about the particular importance of translating science fiction into Arabic.
Book activist Jamila Hassoune was at this year’s Abu Dhabi International Book Fair at an event with Italian writer and blogger Chiara Comito: By Chiara Comito “If there have been […]
