Photos and Videos from 2013 International Prize for Arabic Fiction Awards Ceremony
Photos from the awards ceremony, snapshots from the six short films about the authors, and brief videos.
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Page-turning Novel by Young Kuwaiti Author Wins 2013 ‘Arabic Booker’
On Tuesday night, judging chair Galal Amin announced that Kuwaiti writer Saud Alsanousi had won the 2013 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF), popularly known as the Arabic Booker.
International Prize for Arabic Fiction Announcement Today
Who will win the 2013 International Prize for Arabic Fiction?
Graphic Novelist Magdy El Shafee Released on Bail
Graphic novelist Magdy El Shafee, who was arrested along with 39 others — including 14 minors, a Syrian, and an American — was remanded with the others to Tora Prison […]
Graphic Novelist Magdy El Shafee Arrested Near Clashes
According to multiple sources, Magdy El Shafee was one of 39 arrested yesterday at Abdel Moneim Riyadh Square: Youm7 reported that El Shafee — godfather of the Egyptian graphic novel, who […]
‘Horses of God’: Book Launch with Moroccan Author Mahi Binebine
Moroccan author Mahi Binebine’s first novel translated into English, Welcome to Paradise, appeared last year to some acclaim. Now, Binebine is launching his second novel to be translated into English, also by Lulu Norman, Horses of God.
Visit, and Bring Donations to, the BALMAL Arab Library in London
BALMAL — the Banipal Arab British Centre Library of Modern Arab Literature — is calling for book donations: The library, at 1 Gough Square in London, contains volumes of fiction, […]
Samah Edriss on the Closing of Al Adaab Cultural Magazine (At Least for Now)
Al-Adaab is closing, but, according to publisher Samah Edriss, may return in an electronic form that “tricks censorship and spreads wider to reach the era where we can re-issue its paper version again.”
Raja Shehadeh’s ‘Occupation Diaries’ Makes 2013 Orwell Prize Shortlist
Two hundred ten books submitted for the 2013 Orwell Prize — Britain’s top prize for political writing — have now been narrowed to seven. Among the seven shortlisted titles is Palestinian writer Raja Shehadeh’s “Occupation Diaries.”