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Some activists reportedly have called for a protest outside the Dar el Shorouk publishing house, demanding that the house lower their book prices.

Banipal has now published excerpts from all the 2012 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF)-shortlisted novels: Two separate excerpts of Rabee Jaber’s The Druze of Belgrade have appeared (in Banipal 41, 43) […]

Iraqi writer Faris Adnon spent 30 years crafting poetry.  But this, he says, is no longer the time for poetry. By Faris Adnon Zuhair Al-Jazairi, editor in chief of the […]

There’s a lengthy Q&A with Egyptian novelist Sonallah Ibrahim in Banipal 43, which just arrived at my PO box. The wide-ranging interview, conducted by AUC history professor Camilo Gomez-Rivas, opens with […]

Yesterday, I read “Baghdad marketplace oasis holds ‘Iraq of dreams’” in the International Herald Tribune and was struck by a dizzy feeling of déjà vu. Hadn’t I read this story […]

Artists and writers who are “from, and working in, the Middle East” are invited to apply for an 8-week residency in Vermont that includes travel, housing, meals, health insurance (important!), […]

I say this because I’ve gotten three solicitations with three different deadlines: The deadline has now been pushed to March 30. By this I assume that they’re still fishing around […]

There are some wonderful, amazing writers who have twitter accounts (Libyan-American poet and translator Khaled Mattawa, Egyptian children’s book author Walid Taher, award-winning novelist Miral al-Tahawy), but don’t use them. I don’t […]

From the Egypt Independent: At this year’s Cairo International Book Fair, the most sought-after books were those about Arab revolutions. Titles about revolution, in Arabic and in English, have also dominated prime bookstore […]