Books

Translator, author, and editor Yasmine Zohdi writes in Mada Masr on art, maneuvering, the freighted idea of “relevance”, and persistent precarity: “What we talk about ……Read More

A poet-doctor born in Algiers, Samira Negrouche works not only in words, but also in collaborations with visual artists and musicians. Her first book in ……Read More

Jan Dost, author of the acclaimed novel A Green Bus Leaving Aleppo, has two works translated to English on the Short Story Project website: Dost is a Syrian ……Read More

Edwar al-Kharrat (1926-2015) was an Egyptian novelist, writer, and critic, and great lover of books:  By Chihab El Khachab My childhood in Cairo was spent ……Read More

From our special section, edited and translated by Chihab El Khachab, on Edwar al-Kharrat and his library: By Ferial Ghazoul [originally published in Abdel Moneim ……Read More

Over at Youssef Rakha’s Cosmopolitan Hotel is work by Moroccan poet and novelist Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine, in translation by Conor Bracken, from a new book — Scorpionic Sun ……Read More

Last month, Olive Branch Press — an imprint of Interlink Books — released a collection of five interviews with the great Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008) ……Read More

Lebanese novelist Hilal Chouman was featured in the “chitchat” section of the most recent Mada Masr “Detox,” a feature that appears each weekend: The chitchats ……Read More

This past weekend, novelist Layla al-Ammar set off a search for bilingual Arabic-English books: A search turns up a decent number of classic works in ……Read More

Sudanese writer Omayma Abdullah’s “The Route Through Purgatory” was featured in a recent Friday Finds. The startling desert story was translated by Nassir al-Sayed al-Nour and ……Read More

UNESCO’s World Arabic Day is coming in less than a month, on December 18, and yet great Arabic poets — chief among them Muhyiddin Ibn ……Read More

Winners of the 2019 Stephen Spender Prize for poetry in translation were announced this past Wednesday, November 13: This year’s list of winning and commended poems ……Read More

Taghreed Najjar’s Whose Doll Is This?, winner of 2019 Etisalat Award for Arabic Children’s Literature in the “Young Adult” category, is, Hend Saeed writes, the ……Read More

In Bulaq Episode 38, we discussed a picaresque, surprisingly joyful tale set in an evacuated village during the Iran-Iraq war; the TV adaption Elliott Colla’s Baghdad ……Read More

The Royal Court Theatre announced today that Palestinian playwright Dalia Taha is the recipient of the Elyse Dodgson Commission for the Middle East: This commission ……Read More