Poetry

If you’re Youssef al Mohaimeed, author of Munira’s Bottle and Wolves of the Crescent Moon, this: I worked hard to teach myself. I have read many psychology books about women. […]

I have not read Jarrar’s (critically acclaimed) Map of Home. And I admit I was irritated by a piece Jarrar wrote about her father and (the great) Tawfiq al-Hakim, wherein […]

Iraqi poet Dunya Mikhail was interviewed last week by Cathy Linh Che at New Directions in anticipation of a talk Mikhail gave April 8 with poet Louise Gluck. Mikhail has […]

One of the things Anglo reporters seem stunned about, in the Million’s Poet coverage, is this “very different kind of reality TV.” (Where are the hidden cameras? The lawsuits? The […]

On The Electronic Intifada, Dina Omar has a very interesting interview this week with poet-novelist Sinaan Antoon. Antoon talks about his first novel I’jaam, which is not linear. He says: […]

Hussein al-Abri, one of the Beirut39 (39 Arab writers, blah blah blah), is primarily a hospital physician, although since 2000 he has published four novels. He talked about his conflicted […]

Finally, The National has a piece about the (so-called) death of Arabic that really gets me. I was unmoved by stories about Arabic’s declining use in the Emirates and Qatar; […]

For Hissa Hilal’s international fans—most of whom, presumably, are unacquainted with her verse—the decision of last Million’s Poet judges will be a disappointment. The show’s winner was the 30-year-old Kuwaiti […]

The new Arab-English publishing venture—the Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing (BQFP)—unveiled its first list of books at the Tate in London yesterday. This comes after a big BQFP launch party hosted […]