‘Dictionary of the Revolution’: Defining Words in Flux
“I don’t really know what to call it that wouldn’t be quite cumbersome: perhaps, ‘A Dictionary of Disputed Events in Egypt from 2011-2014.'”
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Hisham al-Khashin: Writing Between Egyptian Feminism and the Muslim Brotherhood
“I have a license to take a historical character and add to it, but I think this is not fair.”
Eight Years Later, Mutanabbi Street
The battle over memories and representations of Iraq in US discourse rages.
New Online in January 2015: Arabic Literature in Translation
Arabic literature that’s newly published (in translation, online) this month.
Absurdity v. Absurdity, or: How to Fight the Lebanese Censorship Bureau
MARCH continues to troll Lebanon’s censorship bureau with frustrating and funny results.
February 2015: Global Arab and Arabic Literary Events Calendar
A global calendar of Arabic literary events — with some translational element — in February 2015.
Reading ‘Revolution’ With Tawfiq al-Hakim
Syracuse University Press recently published The Revolt of the Young: Essays by Tawfiq al-Hakim, newly translated by Mona Radwan. Inspirational in 2011, how does this collection stand now?
Countdown to the 2015 International Prize for Arabic Fiction: The Brothers Douaihy
This is the first year siblings have been on the International Prize for Arabic Fiction longlist together.
Jabbour Douaihy: ‘We Are Not, Of Course, the Goncourt Brothers’
Jabbour Douaihy on the IPAF: “As with all growth, there are some too-hasty writings, but there’s also a great, diverse, and exciting expression of Arab reality, and as time passes the wheat will be separated from the chaff.”