Books

Tunisian novelist and essayist Albert Memmi died in Paris on Friday night. He was 99: Memmi was born nearly a century ago, in December of ……Read More

The Lebanese poet, essayist, art critic, and diplomat Salah Stétié died last night in Paris, his family announced: With publisher Farouk Mardam-Bey. Photo credit: Olivia ……Read More

Yesterday, “Arab Publishers Take a Hit From the Covid-19 Crisis,” appeared in al-Fanar: The “Publishers Without Borders” panel. The piece was sparked by a “Publishers ……Read More

This lock-in Monday, as part of our ongoing series of stay-at-home literature, a short story by Syrian writer Zakaria Tamer that appeared, in Marllyn Hacker’s ……Read More

Several international or Arab-focused literary festivals and events have been moving online: May Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino EXTRA promises to be “the first ……Read More

When I was a little girl, I used to sneak off to my bedroom, close the door, and imagine I was in a castle or ……Read More

Anissa Daoudi, Lecturer in Arabic and Translation Studies at the University of Birmingham, has started a series of live video interviews with Algerian writers, with ……Read More

Three compelling May releases will be available next week: The Magnificent Conman of Cairo, by Adel Kamel, translated by Waleed Almusharaf, with a foreword by ……Read More

This lock-in Monday, as part of our ongoing series of stay-at-home literature, a short story by award-winning Sudanese writer Ali el-Makk: By Ali el-Makk Translated by ……Read More

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex might officially be ready to spill the royal tea.  A new tell-all called Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and ……Read More

The Butcher of Casablanca is Abdelilah Hamdouchi’s fourth crime novel available in English, following Bled Dry (tr. Benjamin Smith), Whitefly (tr. Jonathan Smolin), and The Final Bet (tr. Smolin): ……Read More

Issue 19 of The Common magazine has a portfolio from Sudan, which features stories translated from Arabic by eleven different authors, as well as selections of ……Read More

ArabLit Editor Nadia Ghanem surveys the twentieth- and twenty-first century Moroccan literature available in English: By Nadia Ghanem From the Casablanca International Book Fair. Many readers ……Read More

This lock-in Monday, as part of our ongoing series of stay-at-home literature, Rami Tawil’s short story on closing our eyes and keeping them shut, which ……Read More

Acclaimed poet and lyricist Mido Zoheir died Sunday morning of a heart attack: Zoheir was widely beloved, and readers crowded into the Cairo International Book ……Read More