Books

Poetry plays an important, although sometimes contested, role in public speech in contemporary Saudi Arabia: By ArabLit Contributor On December 24, the Saudi public prosecutor ……Read More

The Nobel Prize for Literature keeps their archives sealed for 50 years. The Complete Review reports that the 1969 archives are now in the public ……Read More

Leri Price has won the 2019 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation for her “sharp and unobtrusive” translation of Khaled Khalifa’s Death is Hard ……Read More

The International Prize for Arabic Fiction’s (IPAF) 2020 longlist was announced last month, and Said Khatibi’s third novel Firewood of Sarajevo, was among the 16 ……Read More

The Sheikh Zayed Book Award (SZBA) today announced the longlist for its 2020 literature category: Thirteen new books — published in 2018 and 2019 — by mostly ……Read More

In the New York Review of Books, Hisham Aidi writes about Paul Bowles, Tangier, repression, Orientalist distortion, and the persistence of myth: The essay, “So Why Did ……Read More

Independent Egyptian newspaper Mada Masr reports that, on Tuesday, Egypt’s Supreme Military Appeals Court upheld a five-year prison sentence against publisher Khaled Lotfy: According to Mada Masr, ……Read More

Said Khatibi’s Firewood of Sarajevo is on the longlist for this year’s International Prize for Arabic Fiction, and it is both a novel and a transformation of ……Read More

These 10 vivid short stories, from Sudanese and South Sudanese writers, are in honor of the Northern Hemisphere’s shortest day: Ibrahim El-Salahi. Untitled from Prison ……Read More

Zainab Fasiki recently launched her new graphic novel, Hshouma, Corps et Sexualité au Maroc: By Olivia Snaije From the early 20th century through the 1970s, when the ……Read More

On exposing words and reading the life and times of (the great) Ahmed Faris al-Shidyaq: By Tugrul Mende Yāqūt, dahnağ, and zibriğ are words describing ……Read More

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