Egyptian Pavilion Shut Down at Tehran Book Festival
And I thought we were crazy. The Egyptian pavilion has been shut down at the Tehran International Book Festival (TIBF) for offering The Arabian Gulf Encyclopedia, the Tehran Times reports. […]
Poetry
PalFest Wrap-up Event: The Video
Seven and a half minutes from the closing night.
What Did I Learn from The Top 100 (+5) List of the ‘Best Arabic Fiction’?
First off, I’ve certainly become convinced that lists are odd artifacts, and that lists voted on by a group of nervous, self-interested humans are probably the oddest of all. For […]
/The Economist/: Arabic is Not Dying, After All
The April Economist rebuts arguments made in The National that say, in essence: The sky is falling! Arabic’s dying! Indeed, who knows, the sky might be falling. Once the ozone […]
World’s ’50 Most Influential Arabs’ Includes Which Literary Author?
I’m not quite sure who was polled, or how The Middle East magazine came up with their list of the 50 most influential Arabs. (Not another list!) But they included […]
Celebrate Short Story Month With Yusuf Idris, Ghassan Kanafani, Others
According to the Emerging Writers Network (as well as a few lit mags and media outlets), May is not just the month of workers and flowers, but is also Short […]
PalFest Wraps Up With Personal Readings
PalFest wrapped up yesterday with a final event at the African Community Society in Jerusalem. I haven’t seen video or tweets about the event, but each participant was set to […]
Best 100 Arabic Books (According to the Arab Writers Union): 101-105
Now I’ve got 1-10 (and an explanation of this project), 11-20, 21-30, 31-40, 41-50, 51-60, 61-70, 71-80, 81-90, 91-100…and so ends this crazy list. The final five: 100 A Man […]
Christian and Muslim Lawyers Join Hands in Seeking to Ban Books
Now isn’t that a touching image? A recent hesba case against Yousef Ziedan’s “Arabic Booker”-winning Azazeel apparently has brought together book banners from both Christian and Muslim camps. According to […]