In 2008, the Emirates Foundation funded the first “Arabic Booker” literary prize. The Dubai International Poetry Festival 2009 has announced its intentions to revive an ancient Arab literary contest. The […]
The new issue of A Public Space is full of young Egyptian writers in a “focus” curated by Brian Edwards. With a story from Mansoura el-Ezdin and two entries from […]
Generally, I gravitate toward fiction—probably as one of my obstinacies, since the rest of the world is racing like a bullet toward memoir. But as I read and review the […]
Mansoura Ez-Eldin (b. 1976) studied journalism at Cairo University. She published her first collection of short stories, Shaken Light, in 2001. She has worked in Egyptian television and at the Egyptian literary magazine Akhbar […]
Taleb Alrefai was previously a judging chair for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. According to the 2016 longlist release: Taleb Alrefai is a Kuwaiti novelist, born in 1958. He […]
From the International Prize for Arabic Fiction official biography and book description: Jabbour Douaihy was born in Zgharta, northern Lebanon, in 1949. He holds a PhD degree in Comparative Literature […]
From the International Prize for Arabic Fiction official biography and book description: Antoine Douaihy is a Lebanese novelist and poet, born in 1948. He completed his higher education in Paris, […]
From the International Prize for Arabic Fiction official biography and book description: Mohammed Berrada is a Moroccan writer and critic, born in Rabat in 1938. He holds a doctorate from […]
From the International Prize for Arabic Fiction official biography and book description: Atef Abu Saif is a Palestinian writer. He was born in Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip […]
