Above is the beautiful cover of Sinan Antoon‘s new novel The Pomegranate Alone, designed by Mohammad Al-Shammarey. The book should be out in the next two weeks from al-Mu’assassa ‘l-`Arabiyya […]
Susannah Tarbush, over at Tanjara, notes that the latest issue of International Gallerie, “an award-winning global arts and ideas journal published from India.” Tarbush says: In the realm of the […]
Suheir Hammad writes and performs her poetry in English (not Arabic), but some days, who cares about these distinctions?
All right, perhaps more Egyptians are talking about our recent sandstorm or some football match or another. But those who like a good literary scuffle are talking about this. Literary […]
Sahar el-Moughi notes, in a review that ran on Al Masry Al Youm earlier this week, that: A few years ago, I would have looked with suspicion on Egyptian writers […]
You can sign up for updates from Kotob Khan and the Diwan bookstores. (Note that Diwan has an interesting lineup for the grand opening of their new Alexandria branch.) However, […]
I have known Jabra Ibrahim Jabra—whose relatives and Baghdad home were lost to a car bomb last month—as a novelist and memoirist. However, the great Palestinian writer, who died in […]
Alexandria Diwan is opening up a “Bibliotheca Alexandrina” branch. The official launch is set for 2 p.m. on May 28, 2010. On the next day, May 29, 7 p.m., in […]
The Baghdad home of great Palestinian writer Jabra Ibrahim Jabra—who settled in Iraq following the nakba—was destroyed by a car bomb last month. A relative of Jabra’s entrusted with the […]
