Join MENAWA’s virtual book club to discuss Hoda Barakat’s Voices of the Lost (tr. Marilyn Booth) on December 15, 5 pm UK time. Email menawapocoreads@gmail.com to join.Continue Reading
The Berlinale Film Festival’s 2022 online catalogue includes authors’ reflections on the films, including reflections by acclaimed authors Hoda Barakat, Karim Kattan, and Haytham El Wardany. Hoda Barakat writes on Borhane Alaouié’s Beirut Il Lika (in an essay translated by Eric Rosencrantz), Karim Kattan on Mohammad Shawky Hassan’s Bashtaalak Sa’at,Continue Reading
AGYA alumnus Prof. Dr. Bilal Orfali interviews the Lebanese novelist Hoda Barakat.Continue Reading
“We are not a community, we who stayed abroad.”Continue Reading
In this event the acclaimed Lebanese writer Hoda Barakat discusses her new novel, translated into English by International Booker-winning translator Marilyn Booth.Continue Reading
“Unless the translation proposal comes from a publishing house or agency, the process progresses with difficulty. You do not get the financial and moral rewards for your efforts.”Continue Reading
This was not the first of the firsts. Nor was it, unfortunately, the last.Continue Reading
The announcement was made by 2019 judging chair Charafdin Majdolin at the Tuesday night event in Abu Dhabi, although it had been leaked by former IPAF judge Abdo Wazen hours before.Continue Reading
Because I resist this idea of “summer reading,” I thought I’d choose a summer reading challenge book that is quiet, thoughtful, and cannot easily be taken to the beach (where one reads with an eye to make sure the youngest doesn’t drown) or on a plane (where one reads with an eye toward the person sneezing beside her).Continue Reading
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