Later this month, the 2013 Reel Iraq festival will be bringing more than 50 events to nine different cities, with events in London, Edinburgh, Bristol, Glasgow, Dumfries, Leeds, Derry/Londonderry, Newcastle and Stirling: Events include lectures, film screenings, author talks, music, and […]
This week in Qantara, I have a piece about the historical novels of Jurji Zaidan. Here’s a bit from the middle: “George [Zaidan] came to me about five years ago,” Arabic literature […]
The Qatari appeals court today reduced the sentence of Mohammed al-Ajami, the poet jailed for his work, from life in prison to a long stint of 15 years. According to Al […]
This piece originally appeared in the Egypt Independent’s print edition. You, too, can subscribe to EI print: The book about Iraq most well-known to English readers is perhaps Chris Kyle’s best-selling “American Sniper,” […]
On Monday, March 4, from 7 – 8 p.m., Robyn Creswell (scholar and translator of Ibrahim’s That Smell and Adam Shatz (reporter and LRB editor) will talk Sonallah Ibrahim at the New York Public Library’s Stephen […]
If we had statistics for these sorts of things — which we don’t — I might be able to say that Ahlam Mosteghanemi was the most popular living Arabic-language novelist: […]
When I ran into author Youssef Ziedan and his publisher, Ibrahim Moallem, at the 2010 Sharjah International Book Fair, Ziedan was not concerned about case No. 686: This was a […]
We are still working on a larger online memorial for Mark Linz. But in the meantime, this piece from Egypt Independent: In the early morning hours of Saturday 9 February, the […]
On Friday morning, Minya awoke to find its statue of Taha Hussein — the first Arab author nominated for the Nobel Prize — missing: The statue, which had been placed […]
