I thought the ArteEast story series “Shahadat,” which currently features two stories by Ma’n Abu Taleb, was rather new. (Wrong.) Anyhow, in the process of clarifying, I learned a few things […]
Thanks to author Mansoura Ezz Eldin for reminding me that this week marks the 29th anniversary of the horrific slaughter at Sabra and Shatila.
Of course, my first response was that the scope was a bit on the broad side. Such a project might take a lifetime or two.
As translator Adam Talib remarked yesterday, we can be happy that author Khairy Shalaby got to see the incipient changes in Egypt, “but it’s a shame that his wry voice won’t be there to accompany this new phase in Egyptian history.”
Egyptian novelist Khairy Shalaby, whose work had just begun to gain attention in English, died this morning. He was 73. According to news reports, Shalaby was not suffering from any […]
Becka Mara McKay teaches translation and creative writing at Florida Atlantic University. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Washington and an MFA in literary translation […]
I’m still quite doubtful about this alleged flood of awards to Arab authors, but the flood of literary events—at least outside northern North America—continues. The Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin (September 7-17) […]
I am still working on a line-by-line comparison of the two English translations of Mahmoud Darwish’s In the Presence of Absence, which is really a bit more dizzying than you’d […]
Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing just announced that they’ve signed up حيث لا تسقط الأمطار (Where the Rain Doesn’t Fall – Dar Al Adab 2010), the first novel by the Jordanian […]
