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“The Street Vendor and the Movies,” the next story in the anthology that really hit me, is by Samuel Shimon. It’s excerpted from his An Iraqi in Paris—which I meant […]

The second gem of Contemporary Iraqi Fiction: An Anthology is Samir Naqqash’s “Tantal.” There is only one story by him in the collection, although it’s a lovely one, about illusionment […]

I have read only the two opening stories of Contemporary Iraqi Fiction: An Anthology, finally available in Egypt from AUC Press. If all the rest of the pages were blank, […]

Eight young Arab authors—six of whom are on the prestigious Beirut 39 list—are currently squirreled away at Sir Baniyas Island, writing a short story or novel chapter and being tutored […]

In 2008, the Emirates Foundation funded the first “Arabic Booker” literary prize. The Dubai International Poetry Festival 2009 has announced its intentions to revive an ancient Arab literary contest. The […]

The new issue of A Public Space is full of young Egyptian writers in a “focus” curated by Brian Edwards. With a story from Mansoura el-Ezdin and two entries from […]

Generally, I gravitate toward fiction—probably as one of my obstinacies, since the rest of the world is racing like a bullet toward memoir. But as I read and review the […]

Mansoura Ez-Eldin (b. 1976) studied journalism at Cairo University. She published her first collection of short stories, Shaken Light, in 2001. She has worked in Egyptian television and at the Egyptian literary magazine Akhbar […]

Taleb Alrefai was previously a judging chair for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. According to the 2016 longlist release: Taleb Alrefai is a Kuwaiti novelist, born in 1958. He […]