Poetry

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 […]

In an interview on Qantara, Arabic-Booker winning Abdo Khal talks about the experience of winning the prize for his She Sends out Sparks or She Throws Sparks or Spewing Sparks as […]

We humans love a good mystery. Why did the judges choose Abdo Khal’s She Throws Sparks (or, as it’s now unfortunately translated, Spewing Sparks as Big as Castles) as the […]

The Best Translated Book Award (BTBA) from Open Letter Books was just awarded to The Confessions of Noa Weber (fiction) and The Russian Version (poetry), and now comes The Independent’s […]

The Literary Saloon wrote about this yesterday, but I had to scramble to confirm that this doesn’t affect my beloved Stealth before I could repeat the news. It doesn’t, el […]

The “Emirates Air” Book Fair has begun (or taken off, or whatever bad airplane pun you prefer). The Dubai-based fair doesn’t have the “Arabic Booker”; they have many of the […]

John Lingan has a good point in “Everybody’s Got Advice”, posted over at The Constant Conversation. When writers give advice, they have in mind their own process, their own product, […]

Several news organizations today announced that Abdo Khal’s Spewing Sparks as Big as Castles, which won the 2010 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (or “Arabic Booker”), is not banned in […]

Well: People can no longer call the Emirates a “non-producing, non-creative” nation. (Utterly unfriendly to workers, slave-driving. You can still say that.) But let’s not get me down! When it […]