Just days before the announcement of the 2015 International Prize for Arabic Fiction longlist, OneWorld and Penguin announce that they’ve bought English-language rights to the 2014 winner.
“To see this slice of the earth as it was and, how can I put it, to know that we’re not lost in our own time.”
Starting tomorrow in Cairo, you can attend the “Doum Storytelling Nights,” a return to the art of oral storytelling.
A year after the al-Saeh Library bookshop was burned, and an attempt made on the owner’s life, Tripoli residents gathered for an official re-opening ceremony.
This spring, Just World Books will launch what it’s calling the “first book-length graphic work written/drawn in English by a Palestinian.”
Friday’s list of graphic novels was limited to those written in Arabic, as it was for a course taught in Arabic. But let’s be honest, some of your favorite graphic novels were written by Arabs in French.
In September 2014, the American University in Beirut (AUB) began a new academic program focused entirely on the study, archiving, and promotion of Arab comic art. Now they have an online library guide to take you through the collection.
Seven Arab authors choose eighteen favorites of 2014.
The start of a list of January 2015 events dealing with Arabic literature in some sort of translation.
