There’s a lengthy Q&A with Egyptian novelist Sonallah Ibrahim in Banipal 43, which just arrived at my PO box. The wide-ranging interview, conducted by AUC history professor Camilo Gomez-Rivas, opens with […]
Yesterday, I read “Baghdad marketplace oasis holds ‘Iraq of dreams’” in the International Herald Tribune and was struck by a dizzy feeling of déjà vu. Hadn’t I read this story […]
Artists and writers who are “from, and working in, the Middle East” are invited to apply for an 8-week residency in Vermont that includes travel, housing, meals, health insurance (important!), […]
I say this because I’ve gotten three solicitations with three different deadlines: The deadline has now been pushed to March 30. By this I assume that they’re still fishing around […]
There are some wonderful, amazing writers who have twitter accounts (Libyan-American poet and translator Khaled Mattawa, Egyptian children’s book author Walid Taher, award-winning novelist Miral al-Tahawy), but don’t use them. I don’t […]
From the Egypt Independent: At this year’s Cairo International Book Fair, the most sought-after books were those about Arab revolutions. Titles about revolution, in Arabic and in English, have also dominated prime bookstore […]
The 2012 Palestine Festival of Literature (PalFest) is scheduled for May 5-8. For the first time, the festival’s set to take place in Gaza. A “closing event” will also be […]
By Mohga Hassib In his latest, International Prize for Arabic Fiction-shortlisted novel, Embrace at Brooklyn Bridge, Ezzedine Choukri Fishere takes a different direction from his previous, politically driven writings. The […]
Seven winners of Sheikh Zayed Book Awards (SZBA) were announced this morning. The eighth prize, for literature, was withheld. Although six titles had been shortlisted for the “literature” prize — […]
