Elias Khoury’s Sinalcol is one of the few titles on the longlist for the 2013 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) that already has been translated into French (available next […]
From January 14 – 19 of next year, the award-winning poet Ramsey Nasr will be in the UK as part of the “High Impact Literature Tour”: The visiting writers are being billed […]
Egyptian novelist Mohammad Abdelnaby is on the longlist for the 2013 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) for his Return of the Sheikh. Abdelnaby, who has previously been known for his short […]
Lebanese novelist Jana El Hassan (@Janaelhassan) was longlisted for the 2013 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) for her second novel, I, She, and Other Women. El Hassan, who has worked for several Arab newspapers, and currently writes for The Daily Star, studied English literature, graduated in 2006 and is currently am pursuing a master’s degree. She answered a few questions about the IPAF-longlisted novel, and why she writes:
As part of the University for Seniors, a community outreach program at the American University of Beirut, Mishka Mojabber Mourani was asked me to organize a series of literary evenings to […]
Fadhil al-Azzawi, renowned Iraqi author, was briefly in London to judge the Saif Ghobash-Banipal prize for Arabic Literary Translation, the results of which will be announced in January. Banipal took […]
Ibrahim Nasrallah has become known for his historical novels about Palestine, which are now a series of seven, including the one longlisted for the 2013 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, […]
This year, UNESCO is celebrating the first ever “World Arabic Language Day”: UNESCO suggests six ways to celebrate, including with calligraphy, poetry, by learning Arabic, or by reading in Arabic […]
What follows are a few books I hope and expect to read in 2013. Insha’allah* this list will grow. January The Silence and the Roar, Nihad Sirees, trans. Max Weiss – […]
