Liverpool Arab Arts Festival (LAAF) is inviting artistic proposals for their 2022 festival.Continue Reading

This is where you’ll find 1-10 (and an explanation of this project), and here’s 11-20, 21-30, 31-40, 41-50, 51-60, and 61-70. Please do help me out with errors and omissions. 71 Seventh day of Creation by Iraqi writer Abdel Khaliq al-Rikabi Al-Rikabi’s acclaimed novel Sabi’a Ayaam al-Khalq (Seventh Day ofContinue Reading

The award-winning author Ahdaf Soueif was the last to appear at this year’s series of talks by translators at the American University in Cairo. And Soueif, unlike her predecessors in the series—Denys Johnson-Davies, Humphrey Davies, Jonathan Wright—seemed to studiously avoid discussing translation. In the past, Soueif has been a vocalContinue Reading