#WiTMonth Bulaq: ‘Reporting While Arab and Female’
For the UK launch of Our Women on the Ground, an updated discussion of this collection of essays by women journalists from around the region, "Reporting While Arab and Female." ...
Bulaq 53: ‘Murder, They Wrote’
Our guest this week was once told there were no Algerian crime novels. She begs to differ ...
Bulaq 52: ‘Widows, Conmen, and Crimes’
First, we talked our way through a book that tells the stories of women who rallied to ISIS; then a novel that focuses on a Franco-Moroccan family grappling with the end of colonialism; and last, a picaresque, satirical novel from 1940s Egypt that has been recently re-discovered ...
Bulaq Episode 50: ‘Kitchen Talk’
"With special guest Anny Gaul, we talk about the origins of national dishes such as couscous and koshary; medieval Arabic cook books; and representations of kitchens and cooking in Egyptian literature. " ...
Bulaq 49: Locked-in Lit
In our forty-ninth episode of Bulaq, we talk about a few new books — ones that provide a welcome escape, and ones that seem particularly daunting — and about how hard it is to write, read, think and imagine the future right now ...
Bulaq 48: On the Trail of Enayat al-Zayyat
"In 1993, the Egyptian poet and writer Iman Mersal picked up an unknown novel by a forgotten writer from the 60s." ...
Bulaq 2.0: Surveying Your Podcast Thoughts
To that end, we've posted a very short 5-question survey. ...
Bulaq and Vote
While you're on your way to the polls -- or as you wait for results, or as you assiduously ignore what's going on in the US -- catch up on any Bulaqs you might have missed ...
