On the Sonallah Ibrahim Renaissance
2022-12-19
“I think there is also the question of who gets to write Egypt’s history, and who will maintain the archives and documents necessary to tell that history?”Continue Reading
Coming in August: Historical Fiction from Egypt and Libya & an Iraqi Memoir
2022-08-02
Coming in August: Books by Sonallah Ibrahim, Ibrahim al-Koni, and Faleeha Hassan.Continue Reading
Coming in June: Historical Fiction & Animal Stories
2022-06-01
Coming in June, three new books in translation by Egyptian authors.Continue Reading
Hosam Aboul-Ela: Nonfiction in the Novels of Sonallah Ibrahim
2022-03-29
Academic, translator, and writer Hosam Aboul-Ela will give a talk on “Nonfiction in the Novels of Sonallah Ibrahim: The Horizons of Translation” at Indiana University on Thursday, March 31, 2022, at 5pm EDT.Continue Reading
‘Arsène Lupin,’ a Short Story by Sonallah Ibrahim
2021-07-05
“His mouth discharged a second snort. I worried he might attack me, or tear me apart, but he settled his body back into the chair and sighed. “Continue Reading
The Two Egyptian Novels Available in Translation This Month
2021-06-09
Two very different Egyptian novels appear in translation this month: They are Sonallah Ibrahim’s “provocative masterpiece” Warda, translated by Hosam aboul-Ela and Mohamed Kheir’s “musical and parabolic” Slipping, translated by Robin Moger.Continue Reading
Working on ‘Warda’: ‘Challenging in all the Ways a Translation Project Could Be’
2020-11-18
“Like I say, it’s fleeting, but I could write a whole memoir, I think, just about getting that sentence translated.”Continue Reading
Sonallah Ibrahim’s ‘Provocative Masterpiece’ Warda Coming June 2021
2020-10-14
“Oman, which is not often in the media spotlight, appears to the reader of Warda not only as a country with a rich tradition and heritage, but also the scene of a violent power struggle between its different political factions.”Continue Reading
Summer of Lock-in Lit: Sonallah Ibrahim’s ‘Arsène Lupin’
2020-07-27
“Look, there’s no novels,” a voice suddenly boomed directly above my head. “We don’t sell novels.”Continue Reading
