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Charles Akl

Nonfiction Bila Hudood, Charles Akl, featuredAL, Food for Copts, food writing, Ranya Abdelrahman

From BILA HUDOOD: An Excerpt of Charles Akl’s ‘Food for Copts’

July 13, 2021

“A study of Coptic school sandwiches – or how to get your mother to make you the best chicken sandwich in the world.”

ArabLit Quarterly, Charles Akl, food writing, Mariam Boctor, Nour Kamel, Salma Serry

BILA HUDOOD: The Taste of Letters

July 1, 2021

In this panel, moderated by Nour Kamel, writers reflect on the various tastes that make up food writing in and through Arabic. Kamel is joined by writer, researcher, and filmmaker Salma Serry; the genre-spanning author of Food for Copts (2017) Charles Akl; and Mariam Boctor a member of Botoun’s curatorial team who helped facilitate “The Taste of Letters” workshop and translated some of its texts into English.

Resources for Publishers Ahmed Al-Mahdi, Ahmed Val Bin El Dine, Amr Ezzat, Arabic Literature in Berlin, Bila Hudood, Charles Akl, Dunya Mikhail, Haytham El-Wardany, Ishraga Mustafa, Katharine Halls, Liwaa Yazji, Maha Maamoun, Maria Dadouch, Mariam Boctor, Nour Kamel, Rima Rantisi, Salma Serry, Sandra Hetzl, Sawad Hussain, Susanne Abou Ghaida, Taghreed Najjar

‘BILA HUDOOD: Arabic Literature Everywhere’ Announces Schedule of Events

July 1, 2021

‘BILA HUDOOD: Arabic Literature Everywhere,’ an inaugural online literary festival funded by the Royal Society of Literature, is pleased to announce out full schedule of events, set for July 9-11.