Wanted: Library Books for Palestine
“I really encourage international writers and others who are interested in editing mentoring young writers in Gaza to contact me for future projects.”
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No Endings for Maysloon Hadi’s ‘The Brotherhood of Mohammed’
“Orshina is a tiny unemployed woman in her thirties, who lost her right eye in an explosion and studied psychology. She lives with her mother and is delighted to discover that her favorite writer is going to be her neighbor.”
PEN Finalists: Translations of Mikhail’s ‘The Beekeeper’ & Bouanani’s ‘The Shutters’
The winners will be celebrated at the 2019 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony on February 26 in NYC.
Iman Yehia and the Story of Yusuf Idris’ Marriage to Diego Rivera’s Daughter
The photos were a part of the text, and I did not describe them. They give artistic touches so that the reader can feel their ache and circumstances. It is enough to tell you that this novel could not have been published if I had not found a good picture of Hassan Fouad’s “We Defend the Constitution” poster. The discovery of this old, forgotten poster deserves a whole novel.
Eritrean Novelist Haji Jaber: On Writing the Stories of the Falasha Jews
“I learned to read and write late. I grew up in Saudi Arabia—which is where we migrated because of the war in Eritrea—without official papers, so I couldn’t find a school to accept me, despite all the efforts of my mother, who went around to the schools in Jeddah to no avail.”
‘Finally, Haji Jaber’s on an IPAF Longlist’
“The International Prize for Arabic Fiction’s tardy acknowledgment is better late than never.”
‘Shatila Stories,’ ‘My Name is Adam’ Make €20K EBRD Lit-prize Longlist
A three-book shortlist is set to be announced on Feb. 18.
New: From the Stolen Autobiography of Naguib Mahfouz’s Childhood
In later years, he said that he had lost the manuscript due to a “family robbery,” when a relative pilfered papers from his old house and sold them off.
Luke Leafgren Wins 2018 Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation
“The author is fortunate to have found a translator totally in sympathy with his writing.”