This marks a big shakeup of the awards committee, which is a good thing both for those who stepped down — and can thus focus on other things — and for the award, which who knows, might turn up a different sort of book.
Although many are disparaging of the “hasty literature” to have come out of Arab countries since December 2010 (from Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, and beyond), I find some of it quite […]
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I don’t think I worry about causing pain to the reader. I worry much more about fetishizing torture, shaping pretty gardens out of skulls.
Copyright, as first envisioned, was a way to balance the rights of authors with the rights of their audiences. The public has a right to read both creative and academic works, and authors have a right to control aspects of their work and, perhaps, to earn a living.
@Palfest sent out this video of the Gaza creative-writing workshops that were held this past May in partnership with @reachouttoasia. Translator Nariman Youssef (@nariology) says in the short film that, after the […]
Since it seems that the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces will be clinging to Egypt’s neck for some time to come, this seemed as a good time as any […]
When The Quarterly Conversation asked translator Kareem James Abu-Zeid which Arabic-writing author he’d suggest for their “Translate This!” feature, he named prolific and award-winning Lebanese novelist Rabee Jaber. Abu-Zeid certainly isn’t alone in […]
Iraqi-Danish author Hawra al-Nadawi’s Under the Copenhagen Sky was the only woman’s book on the 2011 longlist for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF), which featured just 13 titles. […]
