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Banipal 45, available shortly, promises to bring a number of new Palestinian voices into English: In his introduction to the issue — which will be available shortly — Whiting-award-winning novelist […]

I hope I don’t harp on this too much, but (grown-up) comics are just…so…cool. The piece below ran in the Egypt Independent print edition, and is now online, with two elaborations from TokTok’s […]

This November, Palestinian writer and poet Ibrahim Nasrallah will be on his first solo UK tour. (Schedule below.)

This originally appeared in Your Middle East, and works as a review of the new collection Tales of Encounter, trans. Rasheed El-Enany. Yusuf Idris, Egypt’s great playwright and genius of the short story, was […]

KRO has posted my review of Adania Shibli’s We Are All Equally Far from Love,  but apparently the audio recording I made was too full of ambient noise, oops. I am a […]

I mean it. YOU. This is flash fiction — so yes, you can take the time to write, translate, or just suggest a story. The call begins with trumpets: For […]

It was one thing, of course, when the Brotherhood’s Sayyid Qutb found he had something to say about poetry. After all, he began his career as a literary critic. But when the now ruling-party FJP newspaper steps out against a Lebanese poetry collection because…it promotes smoking?

Egyptian poet, short-story writer, screenwriter, and novelist Yasser Abdel Latif was born in 1969.

One complaint I’ve heard about AUCP titles is that they always come out in hardback and remain so until they sell a certain number of copies. They are — the […]