You might have read Hadil Ghoneim’s recent essay on a group of US high school students reading Mahfouz. The piece ran ahead of an Ann Arbor teachers meeting, for which Ghoneim and ArabLit assembled this list — with some help from translator Trevor LeGassick, teacher Sarah Andrew-Vaughn, and others.Continue Reading
Washington University in St. Louis professor Anne-Marie McManus has been teaching a semester on Syrian narratives, and shares what she’s learned in the process.Continue Reading
Despite my reservations about “The Year of Reading Women,” lists and recommendations of Arabic-writing women who you should read this year.Continue Reading
Each year, a PEN committee chooses between 8 to 10 books translated into English by UK publishers to receive grants to help promote, market and champion these titles. It’s time to apply for PEN Promotes! 2014.Continue Reading
These are eight novels that should all be read for next year’s prize.Continue Reading
If you still haven’t read Yazbek’s “تقاطع نيران : من يوميات الانتفاضة السورية ,” well, you can always begin today. Continue Reading
Syrian novelist Nihad Sirees has won the 2013 Coberg Rückert Prize, an award given by the German city of Coburg in memory of translator and linguist Friedrich Rückert, who lived and worked in Coburg from 1820 to 1866.Continue Reading
NOTE: Events with Samar Yazbek this week in the UK have been cancelled; she has been unable to get into the UK because of visa restrictions. Mosaic Rooms says they are working to reschedule. My full-length review has gone in the Egypt Independent print edition and is now on the EI website. From theContinue Reading
Yesterday, Syrian novelist, TV presenter, and memoirist Samar Yazbek arrived in the U.S. for the opening of a ten-city, two-week tour:Continue Reading
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