Poetry

An email from the group Read Kutub* says: As a reminder, we meet next week on Monday, March 1st to discuss Gate of the Sun (Bab al Shams) by Elias […]

Commenter Al Haraka (The Movement) apparently saw a version of my beloved The Donkey Market at the D.C. fringe festival. The play takes a Goha story—the region’s “wise fool”—and expands […]

From where I sit, in Cairo, the question seems a bit laughable. Dying? True, English is a “higher status” language here. Often, when I read a menu, I will find […]

The Casablanca (Morocco) Book and Publishing Fair started Feb. 12 under the direction of the new minister of culture, Bensalem Himmich. It ends today. I hope being a good novelist […]

I walked into our neighborhood bookstore (more of a stationery store with a few books) yesterday, and was pleased to find a nice assortment of somewhat-dusty fiction. True, the rack […]

According to the Egyptian Gazette, it was satire, religion, and science books—especially those that “had a glossy cover and were reasonably cheap”—that were the big winners at this year’s Cairo […]

The fair’s set to open March 2. According to ArabNews.Com: The book fair will also witness, for the first time, a dialogue between [Culture and Information Minister Abdul Aziz] Khoja […]

I am childishly excited about the possibilities of the graphic novel—thus my repeated laments about the Egyptian government’s censorship of Magdy Shafee’s Metro. In itself, the Metro didn’t speak to […]