Arab Novels, Jewish Characters
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.
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.
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, […]
Dr. Amira Nowaira was kind enough to share an excerpt from her book, Growing Up Feminist in a Muslim Land, to kick off our “How I Met Mahfouz” series, which […]
An oft-repeated saying holds that “Egypt writes, Lebanon publishes, and Iraq reads.” Unfortunately, while Egyptians still write and the Lebanese still publish, Iraqi literacy rates have plummeted in the last […]
Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing has announced that they will publish two International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) winners in 2012.
Well, perhaps this one was a bit morbid: The “Five Before You Die” was a feature we ran back in the summer 2010; by now, there are now many more […]
Seif Salmawy, director at the recently launched Bloomsbury-Qatar publishing house, recently sent out an update re: Arabic books the house will publish in English next year. I would say these […]
Over at Conversational Reading, Scott Esposito has out an “interesting books of 2011” list, which reminded me that my “forthcoming” page still lists 2010 releases. So:
That’s the headline from the UAE-based Khaleej Times, and it’s certainly the headline for me, too. I know almost nothing about Saudi literature, except that there have been a number […]