bookselling

Nonfiction Abdalla Bayyari, books, bookselling, Dima Masri

‘My Grandfather and the Bookseller’

June 27, 2024

This essay first appeared in Romman in 2020. My Grandfather and the Bookseller By Abdalla Bayyari Translated by Dima Masri My maternal grandfather was a multilingual reader, and his library, […]

Interviews Berlin, bookselling, Khan Aljanub

A Tour of Khan Aljanub, The Bookseller and Publisher Shaping the Arabic Books Landscape in Berlin

January 27, 2022

“I think our bestsellers are children books.”

POETRY

New and featured poetry in translation.

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Short fiction from the Maghreb and Mashreq.

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