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.
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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.
New Fiction in Translation: The Puny Pigeon Loft Proprietor
“So—he must have witnessed the robbery.”
Bulaq Episode 40: ‘The Revolution While Dreaming’
The latest episode of Bulaq focused around a collection of interviews with Mahmoud Darwish, titled “Palestine as Metaphor.”
AUC Press Seeking New Director
According to The Bookseller, American University in Cairo Press and Bookstores is looking for a new director.
Born on This Day: 6 to Read by Ghalib Halasa
“With so much to explore in his 7 novels, dozens of short stories, and scads of genre-crossing nonfiction that feels so relevant to our present day hopes and wars, the door is there, we need simply to walk through it.”