The Edinburgh International Book Fest is going on now through the end of the month. This year, events are free, and there are a number of Arab- and Arabic-literature-focused events.
SILA, which is one of Algeria’s main literary events, is traditionally held each year at the end of October and beginning of November.
The Barjeel Art Foundation today launches the Barjeel Poetry Prize, an international two-language ekphrastic poetry competition that invites writers to respond to twenty works of Arab art from the 20th century.
On August 7, Moroccan-Dutch author Naima El Bezaz took her own life. She was 46.
“Funds raised will be distributed to a variety of on-the-ground organizations, including: the Unite Lebanon Youth Project, Beit Aftal Assomoud, Food Blessed, Iftar in a Box, Sesobel, Rebuild Beirut, Wa Taawanoo, and Egna Legna.”
A few updates from booksellers and libraries around Beirut.
We discuss the current situation in Lebanon and literature that looks at the worlds beneath our feet.
Literary events honoring and hosted by Saudi Arabia attract perhaps the most objections from authors and publishers.
“Not only did this create an increased sense of intimacy during the events, it also altered the temporality of the festival by allowing audiences to participate live, view recordings of events at their own leisure and, perhaps most significantly, to return to these events and reconsider their contents through the creation of a digital archive with many of the events still available to view online.”
