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 […]
Highlights of this year’s Liverpool Arabic Arts Fest (July 6-15, 2012) include poetry by Khaled Mattawa, stand-up comedy from Maysoon Zayid, a glimpse of the new Tunisian anthology Fleeting Words discussed yesterday, […]
According to the US-based “Freedom House,” Kuwait’s media environment has been “long considered one of the most open in the Middle East[.]” Kuwait was one of just a handful of […]
Hassan Blasim’s new collection, which is out later this year from the UK’s Comma Press, has been sold to Penguin USA (in combination with his first). The news release: Manchester’s […]
International attendees of the 2012 Palestine Festival of Literature returned to Cairo, made their report about the fest, and have since gone back to their homes and lives in Cairo […]
Elias Khoury recently spoke about his novel كأنها نائمة (As Though She Were Sleeping) in Minneapolis, Minn., USA, which was the justification for my review of his book in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. […]
Yesterday afternoon, I met with Palestinian-British novelist Selma Dabbagh, following her trip to Gaza with the 2012 Palestine Festival of Literature. Dabbagh’s debut novel Out of It (BQFP 2011, US edition […]
