Five judges chose the six shortlisted titles from among 270 Arabic novels submitted from around the world.
No Award in 2019: Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature
"With plans for the future of the award already in motion, the decision has been made not to announce a winner for the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature this year."
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.
Omaima Al-Khamis: ‘Mahfouz is the Sisyphus of the Arabic Novel’
"For narrative is a feminine land, and it is a forest . . . hidden behind the likely and the possible."
Saudi Novelist Omaima Al-Khamis Wins 2018 Naguib Mahfouz Medal
Unlike most travel literature, al-Khamis's "Voyage of the Cranes over the Agate Cities": "focuses on the role of women in this age: as scholar, scientist, and imam of a mosque."
Tonight: 2018 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Arabic Literature
This year’s judges are Tahia Abdel Nasser, Shereen Abouelnaga, Mona Tolba, Humphrey Davies, and Rasheed El-Enany.
Huzama Habayeb on the Painful Process of Writing and the Joy of Reading
Yet it was in Kanafani’s Men in the Sun, Habayeb says, that she found what it meant to be a Palestinian. “I cried because of this discovery."
4 in Translation By Naguib Mahfouz Medal Winner Huzama Habayeb
"But the broom grows skinnier by the day, just like her."
Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature to Huzama Habayeb for ‘A New Kind of Palestinian Novel’
"'Velvet' begins with Hawwa crossing a narrow street, entering a narrower alley, and turning into countless others. As she passes through the alleys she knows by heart, she ruminates on her family and her frequent trips to the seamstress’s house where she works and has found refuge from the harshness of the refugee camp."
Naguib Mahfouz Medal Winner Huzama Habayeb’s Full Address
If we allow ourselves to peel off assumptions, biases, “moral lessons,” the sins of ideology, and the lie of the triumph of good and truth over evil and injustice, we will be surprised by the turn of the narrative.
Naguib Mahfouz Day: Teaching, Translating, Memories, and More
The prize he helped fund, and which is named for him, is now in its twenty-second year, and will be announced later today.
Naguib Mahfouz Medal Winner Adel Esmat on How to Know the Truth of What You Write
"Finally, I thank those who selected my novel for this prize: you have awarded me a moment of joy, of which I was most in need."
