Embrace at the Brooklyn Bridge, a novel by former Egyptian diplomat (and current novelist-professor-commentator) Ezzedine Choukri Fishere, is the second of Fishere’s novels to be longlisted for the prize popularly […]
International Prize for Arabic Fiction organizers announced today that: Given the current turmoil in Cairo and our awareness of, and respect for, the suffering and anxieties of many of those […]
Two novels that I’ve read of late, one from Egypt (Mona Prince’s So You May See) and one by a Syrian (Fadi Azzam’s Sarmada), have depictions of sex that would […]
I am just now finishing a first read of Ali Bader’s حارس التبغ (The Tobacco Keeper, trans. Amira Nowaira), and it has struck me, again and again, how different the […]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) announced earlier this week that nominations are now open for the 2012 Hellman-Hammett grants. The grants, administered by HRW, are for writers who have suffered persecution […]
Yesterday, I briefly mentioned Egyptian playwright Laila Soliman’s controversial summer 2011 theater projects, and her attempts to write “an alternative version of history.” Hers is just one of many artistic projects […]
Attendees at the “The Woman’s Voice in Fiction: Global Perspectives” talk Thursday at the 2011 Sharjah International Book Fair had the tremendous privilege of hearing a few paragraphs from Ahdaf […]
According to a report by the Toronto Star’s Mitch Potter (@MPWrites), a “book unbanning” ceremony was held yesterday in Tripoli. The ceremony took place at a royal palace that was converted into a […]
You can read more from writer, reader, farmer, blogger Maryanne Stroud Gabbani at her blog, Living in Egypt. On her relationship with Mahfouz: I’ve been a bookworm since the day […]
