Film Featuring Suheir Hammad’s Poetry Now Online
The film, When I Stretch Forth Mine Hand, is part of a collective of directors’ responses to the assault on Gaza. It was made last year by Omar Robert Hamilton […]
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Ramadan Kareem from Naguib Mahfouz
From early boyhood I never studied during the holy month of Ramadan, although this was the month during which I read more than at any other time. My reading, however, […]
Publishers: Words Without Borders Suggests You Pick Up English Rights to /Metro/
The online journal Words Without Borders has put together another interesting edition of their “Words Without Borders Recommends” missive, their “quarterly tip sheet about WWB writers who we believe can […]
Suad Amiry on Riz Khan’s ‘One on One’ August 7
On August 7, Palestinian author Suad Amiry (Sharon and My Mother-in-Law, Nothing to Lose But Your Life) will appear on Riz Khan’s “One on One” on Al Jazeera English. According […]
New History of ‘Theater Beirut’ Says Obstacles to Art are Censorship, Taxes
As long as we at ArabLit are on the topic of censorship today, Lebanon’s Daily Star has a piece about Hanan Hajj Ali’s new book, Theater of Beirut, a history […]
Raja Shehadeh’s /A Rift in Time: Travels with my Ottoman Uncle/ Available Now
Raja Shehadeh, a Palestinian lawyer and author who lives in Ramallah (and writes in English) has a new book out this month from Profile Books, titled A Rift in Time. […]
Words Without Borders to Host Literary Blog Series from Palestine, Israel
WWB just announced a new blog series, hosted by MFA Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi and PhD in Comp Lit Chana M., that promises to explore literature and cross-cultural dialogues […]
Galal Amin’s /Nectar of the Years/ a Memoir Worth Translating?
Rashda Ragab has a glowing review of economist Galal Amin’s recently published Rahik al-Omr, or Nectar of the Years (2010, Dar el Shorouk), in this week’s Al Ahram Weekly. This […]
Will the Real Youssef Ziedan Please Come Forward?
Over at Al Masry Al Youm, Omar Cheta has an interesting piece about the perceptions and misperceptions of academic and author (and “Arabic Booker” winner) Youssef Ziedan. And this isn’t […]