On Publication Day, A Look Back: Ihsan Abdel Kouddous
Ihsan Abdel Kouddous’s I Do Not Sleep appears this month from Hoopoe Fiction, in Jonathan Smolin’s translation.Continue Reading
Ihsan Abdel Kouddous’s I Do Not Sleep appears this month from Hoopoe Fiction, in Jonathan Smolin’s translation.Continue Reading
The small village had grown used to hosting a Qur’an reciter from Cairo in the month of Ramadan. His melodious recital enlivened the nights and lent the villagers a proud edge over the people of the surrounding hamlets. Continue Reading
“I have no stake in this story outside of a desire to tell it.”Continue Reading
Dozens of of Ihsan Abdel Quddous’s (1919-1990) popular novels have been adapted to film, many of them popular and groundbreaking cinematic works in their own right.Continue Reading
“My book really is an examination of how he participated in the coup ,and how he believed fundamentally that the Free Officers were going to install democracy, and—once he realized that they were actually installing military dictatorship—the way he dissented, in the editorials and in person, the way that he was jailed, and the way he turned to fiction to express his dissent directly to Nasser.”Continue Reading
Join us for a discussion of “I Do Not Sleep”, by the late Egyptian master writer Ihsan Abdel Kouddous (Hoopoe, January 2022), with the translator Jonathan Smolin, Marcia Lynx Qualey, and Sharif Abdel Kouddous.Continue Reading
Jonathan Smolin and Alaa Al Aswany discuss (the late) Ihsan Abdel Kouddous’ novel, “I Do Not Sleep”.Continue Reading
“You don’t know me, even if I did turn your head both times you saw me. Once on Sidi Bishr beach in Alexandria and another time at the Semiramis Hotel in Cairo. Each time, I didn’t pay much attention to you, as I’d gotten used to turning men’s heads.”Continue Reading
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