“Let me call it disorder. It means you live and you can go to concerts and you can listen to Bach, others. And at the same time you can hear the echoes of bombing.”
The three previous Man Booker International Prizes have gone to North American writers, but this year’s is a wonderfully diverse list.
The popular Saudi writer and TV commentator Badriya al-Bishr appeared at this year’s Emirates LitFest, where she talked about the explosion in production of Saudi novels, how she deals with controversy, her latest novel, and more.
Within the next few weeks, the Kalimat Group will launch Riwayat, perhaps the first Arabic imprint dedicated to Young Adult literature.
Pay with a poem, support an imprisoned poet, watch filmpoems, more.
Instead of appearing at Amherst in person, Jordanian writer Hisham Bustani is now scheduled to appear via Skype.
This March 25, 26, and 27, Columbia University is bringing staged readings of three acclaimed Palestinian plays to New York City.
“While she made the choice of French…the rhythms and tropes of Arabic, its poetry and its oral traditions, can still be heard in the undulations of her sentences, her poems’ sinuous and knotty lines.”
“I’m for human and architectural progress, and not looking at the past with excess consecration or romanticization.”
