Anthony Shadid’s Memoir, ‘House of Stone’
Anthony Shadid’s (1968-2012) House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East, is scheduled for release at the end of next month. The book, his third, will now […]
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Full Program: ‘Narrating the Arab Spring’
If you attend the “Narrating the Arab Spring” conference that begins today at Cairo University, you should get a program as you arrive. If you’re so able, please do give […]
Conference Begins Saturday: Narrating the ‘Arab Spring’
No, you cannot have a program before you arrive on Saturday morning at 9 a.m., but yes, you can pester the event organizers on their Facebook page, where they say: […]
A Visit to Alaa al-Aswany’s Literary Salon
Last week, writer Maurice Chammah attended the literary salon hosted by Alaa al-Aswany at El Sawy Culture Wheel. Chammah writes: The walls of the cultural center’s main auditorium were lined with […]
For Valentine’s Day: Give Me Great Love, Give Me Great Passion, and Give Me Great Darkness, Too
If you’re looking for long Arab love stories with which to woo your beloved, Ahdaf Soueif listed five for The Guardian back in 2009 (1) Latifa al-Zayyat’s The Open Door; […]
Science Fiction in…Egypt
Apparently Juan Cole was not fibbing when he wrote, last summer, that Jordan plans a Star Trek Theme Park to attract tourists. This, Cole said, comes despite sci fi not weighing […]
A Google Doodle for May Ziadeh
Tell me, O tell me! by the planets that are above Who is the heavenly herald who is the dove That thrilled to our midst from yon horizon and sea […]
Open Letter from Syrian Author Khaled Khalifa
Syrian author Khaled Khalifa, author of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction-shortlisted In Praise of Hate, is circulating an open letter that has been translated into English, French, Spanish, Albanian, […]
Should More U.S. Novelists Write About…Iraq?
In Guernica this month, Pakistani novelist Kamila Shamsie asks American writers, in “The Storytellers of Empire,” why, “Your soldiers will come to our lands, but your novelists won’t.” A part […]