New Short Fiction from Kuwait: ‘The Phone Call’
In this short fiction from Kuwait, the central character and his author are in a standoff over a telephone call.
Taleb Alrefai
Forthcoming October 2025: Two Novels and ‘Palestine is Everywhere’
As publication dates often slip — and new books surface — we try to have a glance at what’s really (to the best of our knowledge) coming in translation from Arabic at the start of each month. If you have more books to add, please let us know.
Review: Taleb Elrefai’s ‘Outclassed in Kuwait’
“No Arab writer ever makes that kind of money,” he says. Alrefai’s wife Shoroq also urges him to take payment. “What about our financial problems? My love, please forget about those wretched communist principles you believe in this one time.”
Finalists for 2018 Prix de la Littérature Arabe
Winning authors receive a 10,000 euro prize.
Kuwaiti Censorship: The Worst in the World?
Arguments and counter-arguments have been ongoing in Kuwait since the country’s Information Ministry banned “25” (or 35? or at least 100? more than 200?) titles from this year’s book fair, which started this past Wednesday.