How Booktubing Changed Nada El Shabrawy’s Life
“[T]he words you say on YouTube will definitely have an impact. So you really need to understand this, and you really need to value this responsibility. Otherwise, don’t start booktubing.”
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Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature Will Switch to Shortlist System
Mark your Arabic lit-prize calendar for September 16. For the first time since the award was established in 1996, the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature will announce a shortlist for the prize.
Sunday Submissions: Deadline Extended for 2019 ArabLit Story Prize
The deadline to submit to the 2019 ArabLit Story Prize has been extended to June 15, 2019, in the interest of making the prize more accessible to those on an academic-year schedule.
Friday Finds: Two 1975 Stories by Muhammad Mustajab
“Reading the telegram’s summons, it never occurred to me that I would find him murdered. That I would find my father, murdered.”
‘A Dictionary of the Revolution’ Wins 2 E-Lit Prizes
Last week at a conference at Dokk1 library in Aarhus, organizers announced that Amira Hanafi’s “A Dictionary of the Revolution” had won the inaugural Public Library Prize for Electronic Literature.
New Library-recommendation Project: 10 from Melanie Magidow
Following a brief hiatus, we’re back with the seventh in a list of 10 for public libraries. This one is from Melanie Magidow, translator, editor, educator, and one of the co-hosts of the Goodreads MENA book group.
UN Book Club Promotes Arabic Titles for Kids
The list itself has interesting titles that could lend themselves to wider discussions, but it’s unclear how this list — apparently without accompanying teaching resources — might make it into any book group or classroom.
Translator Issa J. Boullata, 90
Palestinian literary scholar, author, educator, and translator Dr. Issa J Boullata died peacefully on May 1, 2019 at the age of 90.
Egyptian Publisher Khaled Lutfi Awarded 2019 IPA Prix Voltaire
The International Publishers Association announced today that the 2019 Prix Voltaire, which “supports defenders of freedom to publish,” goes to imprisoned Egyptian publisher Khaled Lutfi.