Unlocking Palestine: Sara Yasin on Editing ‘The Key’
In the latest episode of the BULAQ podcast, co-hosts M Lynx Qualey and Ursula Lindsey talk with editor-writer Sara Yasin about the new publication The Key.
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Sonallah Ibrahim, The Egyptian Novelist Who Captured History
The great Egyptian writer Sonallah Ibrahim passed away earlier this month. BULAQ discussed his novel Warda – the story of a female fighter in the 1960s and 70s Dhofar rebellion in Oman, and of the Egyptian intellectual who, decades later, tries to solve the mystery of what happened to her.
New on Bulaq: Mohamed Choukri’s Brutal Honesty
In the latest episode of BULAQ, co-hosts M Lynx Qualey and Ursula Lindsey talk with translator-scholar Jonas Elbousty about the great Mohamed Choukri.
New on Bulaq: Arab Women’s Memoirs
In this episode, author, commentator and human rights advocate Khaled Mansour joins us to talk about how reading Arab women’s memoirs can help one gain a new understanding of the region’s collective history.
New on Bulaq: ‘One Day,’ with Omar El Akkad
Novelist and former journalist Omar El Akkad talks about his book One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This – a blend of memoir, social criticism, and moral philosophy.
New Fiction in Translation & an Author Talk: Said Khatibi’s ‘The End of the Sahara’
In the latest episode of the BULAQ podcast, Episode 100, co-hosts Ursula Lindsey and M Lynx Qualey talk to Algerian novelist Said Khatibi about his novel The End of the Sahara, which […]
Lit & Found: An Excerpt from Hamdi Abu Golayyel’s ‘Men Who Swallowed the Sun’
Hamdi Abu Golayyel’s Men Who Swallowed the Sun, translated by the late Humphrey Davies, is the focus of the most recent episode of the BULAQ podcast: “Stealing, Drug-dealing, and the Epic of Egyptian Migration.”
#WiTMonth Bulaq: ‘The Frightened Ones’
The Frightened Ones was shortlisted for the 2018 International Prize for Arabic Fiction; its English translation came out in the UK in April and was published in the US last week.
Bulaq 54: ‘Talking Shit’
We discuss the current situation in Lebanon and literature that looks at the worlds beneath our feet.
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