If you attend any of the sessions, please do consider guest-blogging or writing it up for a journal or newspaper & letting me know. If you have any questions about […]
“I call on the Alexandrian community to restore Al-Nabi Daniel’s kiosks, protect sellers and not destroy the heritage of Alexandria for a governor suffering from intellectual difficulties and flawed priorities.”
The 2012 Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin opened September 4th and runs through the 16th. The festival often features many of the world’s most high-profile authors, and this year is no different:
An article in this week’s New York Times notes that the first issue of the new Chinese-language Granta will appear next month. The leading literary journal, founded at Cambridge in […]
There was a very particular look that translator Humphrey Davies gave me in 2009, when I suggested that it was “too late” for me to review his translation of Mohammed […]
Yesterday, I received a copy of Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here in the mail:
Iraqi-American author Layla Qasrany reflects on Iraqi and American “Angel” cities, and the difficulties of writing Iraqi stories:
In Jordan today, many websites have gone offline to protest proposed government censorship plans that include new restrictions on the Internet:
