I just noticed that, over at By the Firelight, Paul Doyle has posted a review of his summer reading challenge selection, Naguib Mahfouz’s Miramar. (Miramar was a selection both by professor/translator Shakir Mustafa and writer/book editor/translator R. Neil Hewison.) It’s been a while since I’ve read Miramar, so I’m gratefulContinue Reading

Shakir Mustafa (not, you know, Mustafa Shakir) has finally turned in his reading challenge picks. Mustafa is the editor and translator of the excellent Contemporary Iraqi Fiction: An Anthology. I found many gems in the collection, but was a particular fan of the first two stories: “The Turtle Grandmother” andContinue Reading