Halloween Horror & Ahmed Salah Al-Mahdi’s ‘Hour of the Wolf’
“Scholar-translator Richard Jacquemond, after a visit to the 2016 Cairo International Book Fair, noted that three genres dominated shelves and tables: horror, satire, and romance.”
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Amjad Nasser, 1955-2019
According to multiple reports, Nasser died Wednesday. He was 64.
6 Winners of the 2019 Etisalat Award for Arabic Children’s Literature
Winners of the Etisalat Prize for Arabic Children’s Literature were announced today in six categories — best book, best text, best illustrations, best production, best wordless picture book, and best young adult — on the opening day of the Sharjah International Book Fair.
A Wartime Novel That’s Tender, Charming, and Donkeyphilic
“So Um Qasem decides to get up before dawn and make off with a donkey called “Good Omen,” who is both her trusty steed and her Sancho Panza.”
Bulaq 37: ‘Disappearing Palestinians’
On Episode 37, Ursula Lindsey & M Lynx Qualey talked about two festivals (one long-established, one brand new) that celebrate Palestinian literature; an author who was penalized for supporting BDS; and a book that asks the question: What would happen if Palestinians simply disappeared?
Winners of 2019 Prix du Maroc du Livre in French, Arabic, Tamazight
Awards were given in seven categories, including: poetry, prose, children’s literature, and translation.
Cover Reveal: Haytham al-Wardani’s ‘The Book of Sleep’
“People were coming out onto the streets and at the same time there was this sense of imminent disaster. What happened on June 30 happened, the defeat came to pass, and it was then that I started to take the subject seriously.”
New: Library of Arabic Literature Podcast Channel
Current discussions include talks with Bilal Orfali on wise fools, Maurice Pomerantz on the magic of words, and Marcel Kurpershoek on Nabati and classical poetries.
Winner of 2019 ArabLit Story Prize: ‘The Sharp Bend at Al-Bakur’
“The story suggests that the innocent dead were sacrificed for the vanity of those in power and those who seek it.”