Other than culture, there was nothing to maintain the fame of Egypt. We would have simply gone to the gutter and been shamed and forgotten. It is thanks to culture and the intellectuals that we reached this far, and so the disregard for culture or attempts to reduce its role are simply unimaginable.
A global events calendar for June, July, & August 2012.
The Michigan-based Arab American Museum has announced the winners of the 2012 Arab American Book Awards, and — unsurprisingly — Diana Abu Jaber’s big and beautiful Birds of Paradise, which compellingly follows […]
To participate: You have to be from “the Middle East region,” 16-30, and be inspired by one of these 12 themes:
I haven’t yet seen the magazine, just the cover and the introduction. But Banipal editor Samuel Shimon says in his introduction: The new Banipal 44 celebrates 12 women writers, with four […]
I doubt that this list is comprehensive, particularly as concerns “Arab” diaspora literature. Please do post additions below. Also, the list is somewhat mixed & muddled where it concerns US, […]
It wasn’t that long ago that I asked, “Where are the children’s books of the Arab Spring?” Others have apparently been thinking along similar lines: Now, a conference in Beirut […]
According to Gulf News, the University of Texas anthology Memory of a Promise: Short Stories by Middle Eastern Women has been cancelled after some authors’ objections to the inclusion of stories […]
The recent period has been rich in historical novels and historical memoirs (such as Travels with my Ottoman Uncle) set in pre-Nakba Palestine (which is amazing, you know, because nobody existed […]
