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Fairway Galle Literarily Festival Needs A Reboot
Last week’s feeble attempt to revive the Galle Literary Festival was a disappointing failure. Notwithstanding the efforts of billionaire businessman Hemaka de Alwis to take ……Read More
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The Bride of Reeds and Tamazight Literature’s from Oral to Written
Rachid Bouxerroub was the inaugural winner of the Assia Djebar fiction prize in the Tamazight category. Nadia Ghanem talks to Bouxerroub and discusses his winning ……Read More
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Abdelfattah Kilito’s Thou Shalt Not Translate Me Translated
In March 2010, Moroccan writer and scholar Abdelfattah Kilito gave a talk at the Sharjah Art Foundation Symposium titled “Thou Shalt Not Translate.” Naser Albreeky ……Read More
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Egyptian Writer Omar Hazek Prevented from Traveling to Receive Freedom of Expression Award
Egyptian poet and novelist Omar Hazek — who was in jail for nearly two years for protesting before being “pardoned” last September — has been ……Read More
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Egyptian Novelist Ahmed Naji and Editor Tarek al-Taher Will Go Back to Court in ‘Public Morals’ Case
Experimental novelist Ahmed Naji and Akhbar al-Adab editor Tarek al-Taher will return to court in February for another trial after their acquittal earlier this month: Naji announced on ……Read More
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THE LITERARY EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
Every January I return to South Asia to experience an assault on all my senses by two of the best-attended English language literary festivals in ……Read More