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 — […]
The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) is looking to fund projects that focus on “[r]esearch, writing and publishing of literary works, including novels, short stories, poetry, translations and […]
MARCH March 6-10 Emirates Lit Fest March 6-16 Riyadh International Book Fair March 14 “This is Jerusalem“: Poetry by Najwan Darwish and music by Basel Zayed. 8 p.m. at the Free Word Lecture […]
Egypt undoubtedly occupies and has occupied a central place in Arabic literary production. Is this the result of colonial-era pressures and boundary-making? Or is it because of a long-standing and […]
Why I think Ahdaf Soueif’s structural choices in Cairo: My City, Our Revolution were simple but brilliant (from the Egypt Independent): Ahdaf Soueif’s “Cairo: My City, Our Revolution” is an addition to the […]
This post was launched by Mona Elnamoury’s presentation at on the “Narrating the Arab Spring” conference that took place from Feb. 18-20 at Cairo University. By Mona Elnamoury It was […]
By Assmaa Naguib “Asmaa Mahfouz will never ever ever ever ever be a representative of the revolution.” This passionate statement was made by an audience member at a panel of the […]
