Books

Egyptian novelist and scholar Bahaa Abdelmegid has died after struggling with Covid-19: Abdelmegid died on Sunday evening at the Ain Shams Field Hospital. A week ……Read More

Theresa Thornhill‘s HARA HOTEL: A Tale of Syrian Refugees in Greece is one of a growing number of books in English about Syrian refugees: By ……Read More

Just like there's really no such thing as a "summer book" (other than a book you read in the summer), there's not really such a ……Read More

Dr. Nabil Farouk (1956-2020), who along with Ahmed Khaled Tawfik popularized science fiction among young Egyptian readers, died today: His daughter, Reham Farouk, announced that ……Read More

Ahmad Mohsen’s السماء ليست معنا  (Heaven Is Not With Us) asks looks into war, punishment, and healing: By Hoda Marmar “The Lord said to Cain, ‘Where ……Read More

Let's open this blog by looking at a definition: Transhumanism – the belief or theory that the human race can evolve beyond its current physical and ……Read More

Is there an Arab Mediterranean? By Raphael Cormack One of the first things I heard after moving to Athens was the sound of construction across ……Read More

Next year, a collection of Syrian-Palestinian author Ramy al-Asheq’s poems will be published in English for the first time:  By Tugrul Mende This publication is ……Read More

In the new issue of Seedings magazine, if you haven’t yet seen it, you will find translations of work by Syrian poet Saniyah Saleh, Egyptian ……Read More

Over at Al-Fanar, ArabLit editor M Lynx Qualey has a look at a new textbook of graphic design, co-authored by Haytham Nawar and Bahia Shehab: ……Read More

Earlier this year, Banipal Books published an English translation of acclaimed Sudanese author Tayeb Salih’s منسي إنسان نادر على طريقته (Mansi: A Rare Man in His ……Read More

Organizers announced yesterday that Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin and Xavier Luffin had won the 2020 Prix de la Littérature Arabe for Luffin’s translation of الجنقو (Les ……Read More

In September, Sudanese short-story writer Mohammed Hassan Al-Nahat won the Mohammed Saeed Nawed Short Story Award — a prize given to writers from countries in ……Read More

Today, Netflix is releasing the series Paranormal, based on the ما وراء الطبيعة books by beloved Egyptian novelist Ahmed Khaled Tawfik. We look back at ……Read More

Lebanese author Charif Majdalani has won a 2020 Prix Femina “special jury prize” for his Beyrouth 2020: Journal d’un effondrement: Other winners of this year’s ……Read More