This past week, the graphic novel “مدينة مجاورة الأرض,” or “A City Neighboring Earth”, by Jorj Abu Mhayya, took the 2012 International Comics Book Festival of Algeria (FIBDA) book award for a work in Arabic. Meanwhile, the pioneering Egyptian magazine TokTok won first prize in the “independent magazine” category.
Chinese novelist Mo Yan, who today received the Nobel Prize for Literature, previously spoke with Granta magazine about state and self-censorship. He said: Many approaches to literature have political bearings, […]
If an Arab woman was going to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, who would it be?
The historical novels of Jurji Zaidan (1861-1914 ) have long delighted Arabic-language (and Persian-, Urdu-, Turkish-, and other-language) readers. For various reasons, only in the last two years have a […]
On Monday, October 8, Banipal magazine is hosting an event at the Birmingham Book Festival: “The new Libya – its writers and bloggers”: The writers — Ghazi Gheblawi, Mohamed Mesrati, Giuma Bukleb — were all featured […]
I’m sure there are more gems online; these are a few I’ve run across (or been run across). You can always check QISASUKHRA for more: POETRY Rachida Madani’s “The Second Tale: […]
I would, of course, be there in a heartbeat. You should go just to lord it over me.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg seems to have missed the opportunity to declare October “Palestinian Literature Month,” (there were other things going on, I guess), but nonetheless, the month is happily crammed with Palestinian novels, poetry, films, retrospectives, and other events. The more you can get to, the better.
