Mohamed Mansi Qandil

Egypt, Fiction Mohamed Mansi Qandil, R. Neil Hewison

From ‘The Country Doctor’s Tale’

April 27, 2026

At this point in ‘The Country Doctor’s Tale,’ the titular country doctor is returning from a house call when he suddenly discovers political posters everywhere, even on the walls of the clinic.

Lit Lists Best Literary Translations 2026, Mohamed Mansi Qandil, Penguin Book of the International Short Story, R. Neil Hewison

Forthcoming April 2026

April 1, 2026

This month, a novel set in the Egyptian countryside and two big literary anthologies with Arabic work in English translation.

Poetry Drumbeat Mohamed al-Bisatie, Khaled al-Berry, Life is More Beautiful than Paradise, Mahmoud Darwish, Memory for Forgetfulness, Mohamed Mansi Qandil, Moon over Samarqand

All Right, I Give in, Novels about Football (Soccer)

June 13, 2010

Everyone seems to be publishing lists of their must-read, English-language books about football (or soccer, where the lists are American). After all, we English speakers do seem to be terribly […]

Reviews A Dinner with Aisha, A Matter of Time, A Solo Performance on Piano, Animals in Our Days, Fawwaz Haddad, Mohamed Al Makhzangi, Mohamed Mansi Qandil, Montasser El Qafash, Rabai al-Madhoun, The Lady from Tel Aviv

Reviews of Arabic Novels Not (Yet) in English

June 4, 2010

Hayawanat Ayyamna (Animals in Our Days), Mohamed Al Makhzangi, 2007. I believe this is the only book on the list of not-yets that has secured an English-language publisher—American University in […]

Poetry Abeer Suleiman, Ahmed El Esseily, Ahmed Mourad, Ahmed Zewail, Alaa al-Aswani, Anis Mansour, Arabic, bestsellers, Bilal Fadl, Farah Pahlavi, Gamal Ghitani, Ibrahim Aslan, Ibrahim Issa, Kotob Khan, Mekkawi Said, Mohamed el-Bisatie, Mohamed Mansi Qandil, Omar Taher, Tayeb Salih, Yahya Mukhtar, Yousef Zeidan, Yusuf Maati

Kotob Khan’s Arabic Bestsellers for April 2010

May 1, 2010

Thanks to Kotob Khan for making these available. Diwan also posts some bestsellers here, although their ranking or time frame isn’t clear. I have not seen bestseller lists from other […]