“Therefore, it is important that future policy actions should focus on enabling support structures and facilities that would allow the publishing and translation of Arabic literature within the Nordic region.”
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Two Jabbour Douaihy Novels Signed by Interlink, Other Recent Deals
Lebanon’s Raya Agency, run by Yasmina Jraissati, has had a good number of new rights sales in the recent months. Several are worth noting: There have been multiple sales for works by Syrian writers Dima Wannous and Khaled Khalifa, Lebanese novelist… Read More ›
AUCPress, Hoopoe Fiction, and Learning to Change Directions ‘Under Duress’
“Eighty percent of AUC Press business was settled in one market and overnight we lost it.”
The Launch of ‘The Literary Consultancy – Middle East’
“My dream would be to expand this soon to include writers working in Arabic, too, and work collaboratively with partners and publishers in the region and beyond.”
Farouk Mardam Bey: Literary Translation from Arabic to French is ‘More Important Than Ever’
“[O]nly 0.6% of translations of foreign works into French are from the Arabic.”
UAE-based Kalimat Partners With Bloomsbury; They Will Publish Translations of Each Other’s Titles
“The partnership will see both publishing companies exchange the same number of books to be published in translation each year.”
‘Kalimat Quarto’ Latest Arab-English Joint Publishing Venture
“They have amazing illustrated books. So we’re going to be launching cookbooks with them.”
AUCPress Launches New Imprint for ‘Engaged, Open-minded Readers’
“From historical epics, social satire, police procedurals and stories of the future Middle East: we will publish the exciting and the unexpected.”
10 of the Best Crowdfunded Literary Projects: International
The successful campaigns share a few characteristics: large networks, good explanation of where the money’s going, decent (to fabulous) perks, and a lot of hard outreach work.
A Focus on ‘Places and Languages that Don’t See Much Movement into English’
I was skeptical when Darf Publishers relaunched “with a focus on Arabic literature in translation.”
Arabic Literature in Translation Faces ‘Racial Profiling and Bias’
A March 24 conversation on contemporary Arabic fiction — between short-story writers Hassan Blasim and Hisham Bustani, editors Jennifer Acker and John Siciliano, scholar Mohamed El Sawi Hassan, and publisher Michel Moushabeck — is now online: Although Bustani loomed over the… Read More ›
‘Disrupt! Books!’ Winner Wants to Help Writers Navigate Arabic Publishing World
The Netherlands-based NGO Hivos recently sponsored a “Disrupt! Books!” event in Amman “dedicated…to investigating the possibilities of the internet for the traditional Arabic publishing industries[.]”
