Last night at Cairo’s Manial Palace, Penguin International President Andrew Phillips and Dar El Shorouk Chair Ibrahim El Moallem formally signed themselves into a partnership that was more than a year in the making: a joint Shorouk-Penguin project that will bring out both Penguin classics and local titles in Arabic.
Soueif manages, when you read her English-language dialogue, to let you know clearly what the characters are saying in Arabic.
Which is was why I was particularly grateful that the British-Libyan poet, surgeon, and blogger Ghazi Gheblawi recorded his impressions of last night’s Tamim Barghouti, Mourid Barghouti, Ahdaf Soueif event via Twitter.
The international women’s publication Belletrista is, this issue, running two features up about Arab writers. One is: “Who Has the Power? Reading Arab Women in English,” which explores the shifting […]
The Palestinian Festival of Literature kicks off May 1 at the Palestinian National Theater in Jerusalem; it will continue through May 6, and makes its way through Nablus, Jenin, Bethlehem, […]
The award-winning author Ahdaf Soueif was the last to appear at this year’s series of talks by translators at the American University in Cairo. And Soueif, unlike her predecessors in […]
