Karam Saber has been sentenced, in absentia, by a court in Beni Suef to five years in prison on charges of insulting religion for his short-story collection “Where is God?”
It’s been an eventful couple of days at the Egyptian Ministry of Culture.
Because what your dad really wants is an ultimately tender historical novel about the father-child relationship. I think.
Read a book off the beaten path this summer — and win a copy of the 2013 PalFest anthology.
As new culture minister Alaa Abdel-Aziz continues his firings, Muslim Brotherhood spokespersons — while denying that Abdel-Aziz is part of the MB — have been leaping to his defense: Statements […]
This is for all fans of Ghali and his brilliant “Beer in the Snooker Club,” although I post with mixed emotions.
Today in Ahram Online, Khaled Fahmy argues that between the two warring factions — the new Ministry of Culture and the artists and writers at the sit-in — “people get lost hungering for literature, music and art.”
I just saw a note from Fatima Sharafeddine — author and translator of dozens of Arabic children’s books as well as a beautiful YA novel, Faten — about establishing a children’s library.
The “Etisalat Prize for Literature” — not to be confused with the million-dirham Etisalat Prize for Arabic Children’s Literature — launches this year, calling itself “first ever pan-African prize celebrating first time writers of published fiction books.”
