Books

Last fall, Egyptian journalist Shady Lewis Botros released his debut novel, Turuq al-Rab (Ways of the Lord): By Tugrul Mende Egyptian author Shady Lewis Botros is ……Read More

How did Egypt’s blogsplosion affect its literary scene? By Tugrul Mende Teresa Pepe, Blogging From Egypt, Digital Literature, 2005-2016, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019 For better ……Read More

Ibrahim Abdel Meguid’s Clouds over Alexandria,in Kay Heikkinen’s translation came out from Hoopoe earlier this month: Egyptian novelist Ibrahim Abdel Meguid (b. 1946) is one of ……Read More

No book translated from the Arabic made either the poetry or fiction longlists of the 2019 Best Translated Book Award (BTBA), announced yesterday. However, Moroccan novelist and ……Read More

Palestinian novelist Ahlam Bsharat’s award-winning YA novel Code Name: Butterfly was translated by Nancy Roberts and published by Neem Tree in 2016. Bsharat’s Trees for Absentees is forthcoming from Neem ……Read More

This evening, Man Booker International Prize organizers announced the six-book shortlist for the 2019 prize. Author Jokha al-Harthi and translator Marilyn Booth made the list with Celestial ……Read More

In May of 2018, young adult fiction author Kosoko Jackson wrote a tweet that would come to haunt him. "Stories about the civil rights movement ……Read More

It’s publication day for the paperback of Yusuf al-Shirbini’s seventeenth-century Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded, which has been translated by Humphrey Davies and introduced ……Read More

Jokha al-Harthi’s Celestial Bodies is one of two titles translated from Arabic on the longlist for the 2019 Man Booker International. ArabLit’s editor M Lynx Qualey ……Read More

The first short story in English translation by Egyptian author Amal Al Banna: By Amal Al Banna Translated by Ahmed Salah Al-Mahdi It was a harsh ……Read More

Huzama Habayeb’s Naguib Mahfouz Medal-winning novel Velvet is coming this fall in Kay Heikkinen’s translation: By Hend Saeed During the 2019 Emirates Airline Festival of Literature, I was ……Read More

Kuwaiti novelist, public speaker, publisher, and bookseller Bothayna Al-Essa is author of more than a dozen books: By Hend Saeed I was lucky to be ……Read More

Best-selling Kuwaiti novelist Saud Alsanousi’s Mama Hessa’s Mice is forthcoming in Sawad Hussain’s translation in November of this year: By Hend Saeed It was to my great ……Read More

Lebanese novelist Jabbour Douaihy has award-winning work in Arabic, as well as in English and French translations. He was recently at the Dubai-based Emirates LitFest, where ……Read More

Our third list of 10 for public libraries — thankfully poetry-heavy — comes from acclaimed translator and academic Hosam Aboul-Ela: For these lists-of-ten, ArabLit is ……Read More