Naguib Mahfouz

Poetry Alifa Rifat, Assia Djebar, Distant View of a Minaret, I Saw Ramallah, Miramar, Mourid Barghouti, Mustafa Shakir, Naguib Mahfouz, Season of Migration to the North, Tayeb Salih, Women of Algiers in their Apartments

Reading Challenge Update: Shakir Mustafa’s Top 5

June 5, 2010

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 […]

Fiction Arab Writers Union, best Arabic books, Edwar al Kharrat, Emile Habibi, Ghada Samman, Ghassan Kanafani, Haidar Haidar, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Mahmoud Messadi, Naguib Mahfouz, Sonallah Ibrahim, Yusuf al-Qaid

The Best 100 Arabic Books (According to the Arab Writers Union): 1-10

April 23, 2010

Somehow, I thought I could quickly track down each of these 100 titles, translate them (roughly), note whether or not an English translation or excerpt exists, and be done with […]