Karam Youssef

Poetry Elias Muhanna, Karam Youssef, Sinan Antoon

Antoon: Five Could’ve Been Fifty, Youssef: Fifty(-Nine) It Is!

May 27, 2010

Sinan Antoon responded to my book request just after I’d posted the list for Take the Arabic Lit Summer Reading Challenge, and Win. If you don’t know who Antoon is, […]

Lit Lists Aida Bamia, Arabic Reading Challenge, Elias Muhanna, Elliott Colla, Humphrey Davies, Karam Youssef, Katrina Weber, Laila Lalami, Maia Tabet, Nouri Gana, R. Neil Hewison, Shakir Mustafa, Sinan Antoon, Ursula Lindsay, Youssef Rakha

5 Arabic Books (in English) to Read ‘Before You Die’

May 26, 2010

Well, perhaps this one was a bit morbid: The “Five Before You Die” was a feature we ran back in the summer 2010; by now, there are now many more […]

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Short fiction from the Maghreb and Mashreq.

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