Egypt’s Supreme Military Appeals Court Upholds 5-year Sentence Against Publisher Khaled Lutfi
According to Mada Masr, the Supreme Military Appeals Court had “postponed a ruling on the case 11 times before issuing its final verdict on Tuesday.”
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‘Firewood of Sarajevo’: Testimonies against Amnesia and for an Alternative History
The novel was inspired, in part, by a 2018 workshop organized by me and Cherifa Kheddar, Director of the NGO Djazairouna, where we brought together survivors of the Algerian Civil war with writers, artists, psychologists, filmmakers and journalists. The objective was to translate first-hand testimonies into different media, including literature.
Release Party for Final 2019 Issue of ‘ArabLit Quarterly: The Eye’
Today, we are e-launching the eye-themed Fall/Winter 2019 issue of ArabLit Quarterly as both PDF and EPUB.
ArabLit’s List: Best Reads of 2019
In ArabLit’s annual feature, authors, critics, and contributors recommend their favorites of 2019.
Zainab Fasiki, Fighting ‘Hshouma’
She was also inspired by Algerian cartoon artist Slim, and the Moroccan author Abdellah Taïa, who writes openly about being gay — and, of course, the Amazigh queen, Kahina.
Sawiris Prize Announces Its 2019 ‘Young Writer’ Shortlists
Winners are set to be announced January 10, 2020, at the Grand Theater of the Cairo Opera House.
Christian Junge: On Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq and ‘Exposing Words’
In short, Junge writes that al-Fāriyāqīya demands the right to a woman’s participation in lust, which means not only sexual desire, but also social and cultural desires — and thus also linguistic pleasures. Women’s emancipation here means not only women’s participation in knowledge, but also in lust. Woman here are not the object of pleasure, but its subject.
Friday Finds: What We Talk About When We Talk About Trees’
As my husband gets ready for a TV interview about his latest short story collection, he receives a phone call from the host, asking: “What are we going to do about January 25?”
Naguib Mahfouz: New Reads and More for the Author’s 108th
Despite the passing of Naguib Mahfouz in 2006, plenty happened in the ongoing life of his work.