In a way, the cover of the English translation of Ghada Abdel Aal’s عايزة أتجوز is completely appropriate. It looks like a Sophie Kinsella cover, and the font—to me—screams “fun!” “chick-lit!” “no straining required!”Continue Reading
Thanks to M.A. Orthofer at The Literary Saloon, I see that the University of Iowa International Writing Program has announced their 2010 International Writing Program participants. As Orthofer notes, these names are “worth paying attention to, some of these folk will certainly be heard from (or, better yet: read) soonerContinue Reading
The most disappointingly silent Egyptian blog—perhaps not for Abderrahmane Mustafa, author of “The Loss of Popularity of Egyptian Blogging,” but certainly for me—is Baheyya’s. Baheyya, who has a lovely writing style and an incisive literary analysis, has posted only four times since the middle of last August. Mustafa’s main concern,Continue Reading
Journalist and blogger Ahmed Naji has out a new book, Blogs From Post to Tweet. According to the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, which is making printed copies available for free, “This book is the first to monitor five years of Arabic blogging by documenting history of the worldContinue Reading
I don’t know quite what to expect from this lit festival—this being its “first edition”—but it seems relatively well organized, if not well publicized. I do appreciate organizer Baad el Bahr’s (Over the Sea) use of homologues: The Cairo Mediterranean Literary Festival reflects an important occasion for considering the contemporaryContinue Reading
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