Books

Twenty-one winners for the 2019 Katara Prize for the Arabic Novel — with works in five different categories — were announced the evening of Tuesday, ……Read More

We are delighted to announce that the winners of the 2019 ArabLit Story Prize as Najwa Bin Shatwan and Sawad Hussain for “The Sharp Bend at Al-Bakur”: ……Read More

Widyan Almasarani, one of the participants of the KfW Stiftung and Goethe-Institut Cairo Short Stories Masterclass set to open today, has a short story at Adda, ……Read More

“Chapter Twelve: October 14, 1994” is at the heart of Mohamed Shoair’s acclaimed 2018 popular history, Children of the Alley: The Story of the Forbidden Novel. The ……Read More

How did novelists deploy types in an apparent push to open up gender norms in Sudan? By Lemya Shammat In his book The Candle and ……Read More

Widyan Almasarani, one of the participants of the KfW Stiftung and Goethe-Institut Cairo Short Stories Masterclass set to open today, has a short story at Adda, ……Read More

Palestinian novelist Sahar Khalifeh — winner of the Muhammad Zafzaf Prize — has seen five of her novels translated to English, but not her classic Bab al-Saha, ……Read More

Do you hear that? That’s the sound of the stack of books on your night-stand getting bigger. Make room, because Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo, ……Read More

The great Egyptian writer Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898-1987) was born on this day in Alexandria: And nobody @ me about his misogyny this year, unless you ……Read More

The newly launched Palestine + 100 works to bring together voices and stories that have historically been at the margins of the SF conversation: By Sinéad Murphy Published ……Read More

Celebrated Iraqi playwright and actor Yusuf al-Ani (1927-2016) is at the center of the latest issue of the Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab ……Read More

You know David Larsen from his lions and cats, but he’s not uninterested in insects: Walters Art Museum, Baltimore Turkey unspec., c. 1717 (al-Qazwini, Zakariya; ……Read More

This summer, Syracuse University Press released a translation — by Sinan Antoon — of Ibtisam Azem’s The Book of Disappearance: It is a mass-disappearance novel, in the ……Read More

Yesterday, the University of Arkansas announced Jessica Abughattas had won the 2020 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize for her collection, Strip: Photo from news release. Abughattas ……Read More

Sherif Abdel Samad’s تشيخوف و السيدة صاحبة الشيواوا was published last year by Kotob Khan Books. An excerpt of the novel — set around Anton Chekhov’s ……Read More