Iraqi writer Faris Adnon spent 30 years crafting poetry. But this, he says, is no longer the time for poetry. By Faris Adnon Zuhair Al-Jazairi, editor in chief of the “Voices of Iraq” news agency, stated in his popular book, Harb al-A’jiz (The Helpless War) that every Iraqi individual hasContinue Reading
This list is incomplete, but I didn’t want to get too far into 2012 before launching it. Please help by bringing more events to my attention. JANUARY Jan 9 Sawiris Awards announced Jan 11 International Prize for Arabic Fiction shortlist announcement “Early January” Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation toContinue Reading
I am just now finishing a first read of Ali Bader’s حارس التبغ (The Tobacco Keeper, trans. Amira Nowaira), and it has struck me, again and again, how different the public square is here from its counterparts in Egyptian literature. The Tobacco Keeper‘s publics (similar in some ways to publicsContinue Reading
Dr. Amira Nowaira translated Ali Bader’s The Tobacco Keeper (read a mid-novel excerpt here), which is out next month from Bloomsbury-Qatar; review forthcoming in Al Masry Al Youm. The book, although fast-paced, is also a complex read, a challenge for any translator. Dr. Nowaira was kind enough to answer 5Continue Reading
The list below does not include numerous books written by Arab authors in English, French, Swedish, and other languages, many of which I have read and reviewed. Books with a (-) are those that I have requested but not (yet) received. With that in mind, tomorrow, I’ll publish the ArabLit(TM) FavoritesContinue Reading
Ahmed AlKilabi, who earned his first degree in English literature from the University of Baghdad in 1974 and went on to become a Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, commented recently on my (incomplete) list of Iraqi writers. I invited Dr. AlKilabi, who has taught in Iraq, Jordan, and Oman, toContinue Reading
There were more than three dozen Arabic books published in English translation this year, as well as dozens of books by authors of the Arab diaspora(s). The bulk of what I received in the mail was novels: There is no poetry category below because giving it to Mahmoud Darwish’s InContinue Reading
The flight of Jews from many Arab nations in the middle of the last century was no small event. However, Jewish characters—and I mean particularly from this 1950s exodus—are rare in Arabic fiction.Continue Reading
This year, freelance journalist Ann Morgan has passed her time reading women. She made a decision early this year, she said, ” to devote 2011, the last year of my twenties, to reading books by women and trying to see what we have got to say to the world.” Apparently, thatContinue Reading
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