Mohga Hassib, who recently interviewed Elias Khoury for ArabLit, also attended his talk at the American University in Cairo. At the talk, he spoke about the value of seeing things afresh, through children’s eyes:
Rüdiger Wischenbart Content & Consulting — together with Lebanese publisher Nasser Jarrous — just released a report on the publishing landscape in the UAE:
Less than two weeks after al-Nabi Daniel Street bookstalls were roughly dismantled by Egyptian state security, Baghdad’s al-Mutanabbi Street was faced with a similar raid:
Writers Trust Award organizers announced this week that Carnival, the latest work by celebrated Lebanese-Canadian novelist Rawi Hage, is on the shortlist for their 2012 prize.
Again, I piggy-back on the work of the enigmatic qisasukhra:
Award-winning Egyptian novelist Mansoura Ez Eldin recently started up a blog focused on creative writing: http://mansouraezeldin.blogspot.com/. So…great! And we wanted to know why:
The Sharjah International Book Fair has been a support and a gathering place for many Egyptian publishers and authors. So this award came as a bit of a surprise to some. From the Egypt Independent:
Tomorrow, at the Delfina Foundation, Guy Mannes-Abbott’s In Ramallah, Running will be launched:
If you’re in Edmonton, Alberta, don’t miss a reading tonight by Egyptian poet Iman Mersal, part of the Olive Reading Series:
