Poetry

Video of the book fair from The National. Look at how patiently and politely those people stood around! Well, I still prefer the Cairo Book Fair’s rough and tumbleness, although […]

Youssef Rakha = 1, M. Lynx Qualey = 0. Rakha called it: The 2010 prize has been awarded to the Saudi Arabian writer Abdo Khal for his novel Spewing Sparks […]

Last week, the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF, or “Arabic Booker”) team put out a “book of excerpts,” featuring 3,000-ish word sections from each of the shortlisted novels in […]

Well, not me. I’m not live from Abu Dhabi. Just live from Cairo, as usual. But blogging from the fair, I’ve found: Chad Post, of Three Percent and Open Letter […]

Last week, Moroccan poet Mohammed Bennis received the Maghreb Culture Prize in recognition of “his outstanding literary achievements and poetry works.” So sayeth the Agence Maghreb Arab Press and the […]

Sousan Hammad has up a new interview, with Iraqi poet Basim al-Ansar, on the Beirut39 blog. Al-Ansar, who now lives and writes in Denmark, tells Hammad about a time his […]

I’m a little stunned and quite impressed (with reservations, since I haven’t seen this book of excerpts). From the Emirates News Agency: The International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) announced […]

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 […]