Applause for Hissa Hilal was heard ’round the world after her most recent Million’s Poet performance. Her fatwa-criticizing poem, a rough translation of which originally appeared in The National, became […]
Perhaps things just things look different in Egypt, because it’s hard for me to grasp these doom-and-gloom views about the Arabic language. Here, after all, Arabic is the language of […]
Jordanian poet and journalist Hussein Jelaad is the latest of the Beirut39 (39 talented Arab writers under 40) to be interviewed by Sousan Hammad. She asked about his influences: You […]
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) announced earlier this week that it had gotten hold of a list of books banned from distribution at the March 2010 Muscat […]
Mohamed Hasan Alwan is a Saudi novelist (born in 1979, so well beneath the cut-off for being a member of the Beirut39) with an MBA. He was interviewed by Sousan […]
The Beirut39 interview with Kamel Riahi, conducted by Sousan Hammad, is certainly the most contentious and (thus) the most interesting in the series. Hammad has asked all the authors when […]
During Humphrey Davies’ talk on literary translation at the AUC this February, a young man in the audience asked about machine translation. Davies laughingly brushed off the question, saying that […]
Mansoura Ez Eldin, who was shortlisted for this year’s International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF or Arabic Booker), has published three books. The first was a collection of short stories, […]
The courageous and gifted Hissa Hilal, who has brushed off a death threat and is on her way to the “Million’s Poet” finals, has finally received a rough translation into […]
