Booze, Tragedy, and Satire: Why ‘Beer in the Snooker Club’ Shares Shelf Space With ‘1984’
“It is hardly surprising that ‘Beer in the Snooker Club’ is recently to be found in many Egyptian bookstores next to Orwell’s ‘1984’ and ‘Animal Farm’.”
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When Cairo Calls: What Worked (and Didn’t) at the Cairo Book Fair’s First Professional Program
For the first time this year, the Cairo International Book Fair staged a professional program for international publishers ahead of — and in conjunction with — its annual book fair.
Memories of Mosul’s Libraries
Novelist Mahmoud Saeed and poet Faiza Sultan remember Mosul’s libraries in the 1950s and 1990s.
What Does Arab Comics Culture Look Like?
“The idea of Arab nationalism affected every aspect of the comics.”
Coming to English This Summer: Fadi Zaghmout’s Controversial, Feminist ‘Bride of Amman’
“The feeling of guilt has clung to me since childhood, since I first realized that my attraction towards men was sexual.”
‘A Funny Thing About a Chair’: Support Art and Literature About Cairo’s Street Seats
“We realized we could understand Cairo and tell some of its stories from the perspective of those street chairs.”
Books Seized by Egyptian Customs, This Time for ‘Instigating Revolt’
The reason given by Egypt’s finance ministry was that the book was “instigating revolt.”
Hisham al-Khashin’s ‘Graphite’: A Feminist Novel?
Hisham al-Khashin’s ‘Graphite,’ longlisted for the 2015 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, shows women struggling against social conventions in Egypt. But do they get anywhere?
Must-read Arabic Literature (for Those Who Like Fun): ‘Women of Karantina’
Al-Araby al-Jadeed posted a review of Nael Eltoukhy’s Women of Karantina, snappily translated by Robin Moger, on Feb. 14 as an act of love: It begins: If you only read translated Arabic […]