Poetry

“Our city with a population of 6 million people does not have many moments of happiness or joy.”

The Netherlands-based NGO Hivos recently sponsored a “Disrupt! Books!” event in Amman “dedicated…to investigating the possibilities of the internet for the traditional Arabic publishing industries[.]”

Beneath the bluntly “revolutionary” surface of the novel, there is a complex narrative structure threatening to subvert it.

Among other events, Egyptian writer Nawal al-Saadawi kicks off a two-week tour around England and Scotland on International Women’s Day.

Khartoum’s popular used-book fair, temporarily shuttered because of the fear of government crackdowns on civil society, was back yesterday: The popular, vibrant used-book fair had been stopped at the end of last […]

“In rehearsing this production, we have done our best to render an American staging of these Egyptian plays. Our primary goal has been to not only expose our viewers to the tragic difficulties of a faraway place, but…allow our audience to reflect on the challenges of our own society.”

Now, Mahfouz Bushra writes, Sudanese voices against the award have grown even louder.

“[A]s a direct effect, the banning halts the process of building a counter discourse, a discourse that contributes something to the idea of the citizen and equality.”

When Ali Bader’s The Ungodly Woman is published by Dar Noon, it will already have been an incipient film project, a part of the Iraqi arts exhibition at the Venice Biennale, and […]