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by Hamdi Abu Golayyel, translated by Robin Moger The narrator of Hamdi Abu Golayyel’s A Dog with No Tail (Arabic 2008; English 2009) moves through life lazily but anxiously. He’s […]

To me, this looks oddly like the “robot pharmacies” at certain medical facilities in the U.S. They could address the aesthetic issue, I imagine. But, for goodness sakes, pharmacists play […]

In an interview posted on the Beirut39 website, Sousan Hammad asked Iraqi novelst Ahmed Saadawi who, among Iraqi writers, had most influenced him: At first, the short stories and novels […]

I don’t quite understand this government-run survey. I imagine that, even in the closest-knit Egyptian family, there might be slight differences of opinion about reading. Also, I’m not sure how […]

Now the Lebanese are trying to get in on the death-of-Arabic act. Apparently, my six-year-old knows more written Arabic than many Lebanese university students*, who are apparently unable to recite […]

Ali Abdel Mohsen has a delightful report on what must’ve been a pretty dreadful book event featuring acclaimed (Arabic Booker-winning) author Bahaa Taher and a pair of literary critics. Says […]

I don’t like exclamation points (except in the case of irony, of course!!), but in this case I think it’s warranted. Go ahead, skip my discussion of this literary graphic […]

For the past few weeks, Michael Luongo has been shopping Gay Travels in the Muslim World around—wouldn’t you know it—the Muslim world. Luongo has said, in his blogs for The […]