Books

Egyptian writer Nawal El Saadawi has had more than 20 books translated from Arabic into English, making her English’s most-translated Arab writer after Naguib Mahfouz: ……Read More

I didn’t have dinner with Elias Khoury in the manner that Lucy Kellaway lunched with Jonathan Franzen. No formal interview happened: I just sat next to ……Read More

Last Thursday at New York City’s Center for Fiction, four novelist-scholars were on hand to launch the Library of Arabic Literature‘s new paperback series. Amitav Ghosh ……Read More

Boualem Sansal’s 2084 has become a sensation in France, where it made the longlist for every one of country’s most prestitious literary prizes. Nadia Ghanem reads the ……Read More

Jordanian author-blogger Fadi Zaghmout and translator Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp are set to launch the English translation of Zaghmout’s debut in a tour subtitled “Sexual Freedoms and Body ……Read More