Three Novels on 2025 Sheikh Zayed Shortlist
Organizers of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award today announced their 2025 shortlists in seven categories; this year, each was just a short three-book list.
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Publication Day for ‘Slender Thorns’
It’s Publication Day for our new short-story anthology, Slender Thorns: Award-winning Flash Fiction in Arabic and English.
Ibtisam Azem’s ‘Book of Disappearance’ Makes 2025 International Booker Longlist
Ibtisam Azem’s Book of Disappearance, translated by Sinan Antoon, has made the thirteen-book longlist for the 2025 International Booker.
The ‘Guardian of the Sudanese Short Story,’ Mohamed Khair Abdullah, Dies
Author Hamed Bakhit told Ultra Sudan that Mohamed Khair had advised him to write, adding, “Write, because if you want to change the reality in Sudan, you can change it only by writing every day.”
International Prize for Arabic Fiction Announces 2025 Shortlist
At an event held at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt — and which celebrated Alexandrian and Egyptian authors — translator and scholar Mona Baker announced the shortlist of this year’s International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF).
Winners of Second Annual Bait AlGhasham DarArab Prize
In Muscat, Oman, organizers put on a two-day ceremony to celebrate winners of the second-ever Bait AlGhasham DarArab Translation Prize.
New ‘Azhar Writing Prize’ Welcomes Submissions
The Azhar Writing Prize, which aims “to increase the representation of Arab voices in English literature,” is open to submissions from Arab writers who “have not had a novel or a collection of short stories published.”
Remembering Iraqi Novelist Mahmoud Saeed
FEBRUARY 4, 2025 — Prolific Iraqi novelist Mahmoud Saeed, who moved to Chicago in 1999 but continued to write about Iraq throughout his life, often boldly, died last week after […]
‘Christ in Dishna’: Short Fiction by Ihsan Abdel Kouddous
Editor’s note: Dishna is an Egyptian village in Qena governorate, near Luxor, on the north bank of the river Nile. This short story, by the towering twentieth-century writer Ihsan Abdel […]