Ali Abdel Mohsen has a delightful report on what must’ve been a pretty dreadful book event featuring acclaimed (Arabic Booker-winning) author Bahaa Taher and a pair of literary critics. Says […]
A couple weeks back, Kuwaiti novelist Laila al-Othman found an appreciative audience when she attacked a new strain of Saudi literature, penned by women, for its “increasingly sexual content.” According […]
I don’t like exclamation points (except in the case of irony, of course!!), but in this case I think it’s warranted. Go ahead, skip my discussion of this literary graphic […]
For the past few weeks, Michael Luongo has been shopping Gay Travels in the Muslim World around—wouldn’t you know it—the Muslim world. Luongo has said, in his blogs for The […]
Kotob Khan has announced a second workshop on literary criticism under the supervision of Professor Sayed Bahraoui. The workshop will start in April; let them know if you’re interested. Also, […]
I have been caught up in an Elias Khoury feeding frenzy of late, reading Yalo (Quercus edition), Gate of the Sun, and White Faces (or White Masks, as Maia Tabet […]
What author Anant Kunda has to say about “international” literature in India has echoes in modern Arabic (international) literature. Hans Dembowski: Who is the audience of Indian authors that write […]
Egyptian novelist Alaa el-Deeb wrote a column called Assir Al-Kutub (Books’ Nectar) for some 40 years. Now 70, El-Deeb tells Al Ahram Weekly he does not feel he has accomplished […]
Events March 5 and 6 at NYU and the New School (respectively) exploring and comparing Mahmoud Darwish and Nazim Hikmet. Presentations by, among others, Sinaan Antoon and Elias Khoury. And […]
