Antoine Douaihy: ‘I Do Regret That I Haven’t Been Able to Devote My Entire Life’ to Writing
Antoine Douaihy on writing: “A single lifetime isn’t enough for this kind of calling. Really, you would need several.”
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Celebrating Egyptian Novelist Bahaa Taher’s 80th Birthday
Today in Cairo, the Egyptian Ministry of Culture will celebrate the 80th birthday of Egyptian novelist Bahaa Taher — the inaugural winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction — with an evening conference.
Mai al-Nakib Launching US Edition of ‘Hidden Light of Objects’ This February
This February, Kuwaiti author Mai al-Nakib will be giving talks and readings across the U.S. from her debut short-story collection, The Hidden Light of Objects: Al-Nakib’s collection was released in the […]
Expanding the Emirates Lit Festival Throughout the Year
“We are hoping to extend the love of literature throughout the year, because the festival is happening only in March and it’s compressed in that one week. There was definitely the need to expand beyond that.”
Possibilities and Pitfalls: Building a Fantasy Series in Arabic
Award-winning Emirati science-fiction author Noura Al Noman, with two books published in her Ajwan series, looks at the possibilities and pitfalls of a new Arabic fantasy series by Islam Idris.
Ibn Fadlan’s ‘Mission to the Volga’: An Extraordinary Narrative by a Not-so-extraordinary Writer
In a new volume from the Library of Arabic Literature, James E. Montgomery re-translates the extraordinary story of Ibn Fadlan’s “Mission to the Volga.”
Imprisoned Poet Ashraf Fayadh’s ‘Frida Kahlo’s Mustache’
Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh has now gone more than a year without trial in Saudi prisons on the ostensible charge that he’s been “insulting the Godly self” through his poetry “and having long hair.”
In a Shift, Five Women Authors on 2015 International Prize for Arabic Fiction Longlist
This morning, the 16-strong longlist for the 2015 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) was announced.
Hemingway Grants Go To Translation of Works by Abdellatif Laâbi, Mohamed Nedali
The Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the U.S. announced the 2014 recipients of the Hemingway Grant last month, and among the grant-ees were translations of work by Abdellatif Laâbi and Mohamed Nedali.