Contemporary Iraqi Fiction: Muhammad Khudayyir
I have read only the two opening stories of Contemporary Iraqi Fiction: An Anthology, finally available in Egypt from AUC Press. If all the rest of the pages were blank, […]
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Yet more Emirati money for hungry literary tummies…
Eight young Arab authors—six of whom are on the prestigious Beirut 39 list—are currently squirreled away at Sir Baniyas Island, writing a short story or novel chapter and being tutored […]
Gulf puts more money in the literary mouth
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 […]
A Public Space: The Cairo Issue
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 […]
Iraq’s permanent citizen
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 Ezz Eldin
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 […]
2016 International Prize for Arabic Fiction Longlist: Taleb Alrefai’s ‘Here’
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 […]
Jabbour Douaihy – ‘The American Neighborhood’
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 […]
Antoine Douaihy – ‘Drowning in Lake Morez’
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, […]